Virginia Mukankusi 
Virginia Mukankusi was found guilty of physically and psychologically torturing Rwandan Tutsis before executing them.  On the 24th May 1998 she was driven in a van along with three others to a place of public execution and shot.  After arriving she waited for 15 minutes in the back of a van before being led out and tied to a specially prepared post.  There were four posts and she was secured to the last.  She was lashed securely around her wrists, around her chest and the post, her hips and the post and her shins and the post to prevent her body crumpling after execution.  A crowd estimated at 100,000 witnessed.  She was blidfolded and, along with the others had a white bib with a black target placed over her breast.  The condemned were made to wait for ten minutes in this state before the firing squad jumped out of a van and qickly shot them in sequence.  On being shot, Mukanski's body jerked and her blindfold slipped free.  It was noted that her lips were still moving some time later when the captain delivered the coup de grace and fired a pistol round directly into her face.
[A Rojo, Justice is Revenge..., Guardian 25/04/98]
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