On February 27, 2015, Rwanda’s high court upheld the life sentence of former justice minister Agnes Ntamabyariro who was found guilty in 2009 “for her role in the murder of Jean Baptiste Habyarimana, the head of Butare prefecture in southern Rwanda, who was a Tutsi.” Ntamabyariro was the only high level official tried by the Rwandan national courts for crimes committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide; others were tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania.