\nKigali, 14 July 2008 (FH) - A sixteen-year-old Rwandan girl from Kigali committed suicide by swallowing toxic chemicals following her father\u2019s refusal to confess to his role in the 1994 genocide, reported Monday the Izuba (Sun) newspaper.
\nThe deceased identified as, Esperance Uwimana, was training to be a seamstress, according to the newspaper.\n<\/p>\n
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\nBefore swallowing the deadly poison on 7 July, the teenager, who resided in the district of Nyarugunga, left a written letter in which she expressed her desire to one day \u2018\u2019to meet \u2018\u2019 her father again because of the refusal of the latter to plead guilty.
\nAccording to the newspaper, the deceased explained that by pleading guilty \u201cher father could have been pardoned or sentenced to community service, which would have given them chance to one day reunite as a family. \u201c
\nFollowing the refusal of her father to plead guilty, she concluded that \u2018\u2019 her life was useless.\u2019\u2019
\nThe genocide, from April to July 1994, resulted, according to Kigali, in nearly a million killed although the UN estimates the death toll to be around 800 000, primarily ethnic Tutsis.
\nThe Gacaca courts are presided not by professional judges but by people considered of high esteem within the community.
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