Leon mugesera biography
- Léon Mugesera (born 1952) is a convicted genocidaire from Rwanda who took residence in Quebec, Canada.
- Léon Mugesera is a convicted genocidaire from Rwanda who took residence in Quebec, Canada.
- Permanent resident alleged to have incited murder, genocide and hatred in speech made in Rwanda before obtaining permanent residency in Canada.
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A Rwandan court on Friday sentenced former politician Leon Mugesera to life in prison for inciting the 1994 genocide.
Judge Antoine Muhima said Mugesera had taken part in "public incitement to commit genocide" as well as inciting torture and ethnic hatred, though he was found not guilty of planning and conspiracy to commit genocide.
Mugesera, 63, the former head of the party of assassinated President Juvenal Habyarimana, denied all charges and appealed the verdict. He said he was in Canada when the killings began in Rwanda in 1994.
The prosecution said that Mugesera, a linguist, called Tutsis "cockroaches" and "scum", and encouraged his fellow Hutus to kill them in a 1992 speech.
Lawyers argued the speech helped trigger the Rwandan genocide two years later in which an estimated 800,000 people, mainly Tutsis, died.
Mugesera, however, challenged the authenticity of the recording of the speech.
Canada deported him in January 2012 after 15 years of court battles. His trial opened in Kigali in January 2013.At the time of this speech Mugesera, now 63, was teaching at the Nat
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Léon Mugesera
Rwandan genocidaire (born 1952)
Léon Mugesera (born 1952)[1] is a convicted genocidaire from Rwanda who took residence in Quebec, Canada. He was deported from Canada for an inflammatory anti-Tutsi speech which his critics allege was a precursor to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In 2016, he was convicted of incitement to genocide and sentenced to life in prison.[2]
Time in Rwanda
An ethnic Hutu, Mugesera has been a member of the dominant HutuMRND party, which had close ties to the military. He was MRND Vice-Chairman for Gisenyi prefecture.[3]
In February 1991, Mugesera authored a pamphlet accusing Tutsi of plotting to "exterminate the Hutu majority".[4] In a speech given on November 22, 1992 in Rwanda, Mugesera allegedly told 1000 party members that "we the people are obliged to take responsibility ourselves and wipe out this scum" and that they should kill Tutsis and "dump their bodies into the rivers of Rwanda."[5]
Do not be afraid, know that anyone whose neck you do not cut is the one who will cut you
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About: Léon Mugesera
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- Léon Mugesera (Gisenyi, 1952) és un genocida condemnat de Ruanda que residia a Quebec. Va ser deportat del Canadà per un discurs inflamatori anti-tutsi que els seus crítics al·leguen que va ser precursor del genocidi ruandès de 1994 i el 2016 va ser sentenciat a presó perpètua. (ca)
- Léon Mugesera (* 1952) ist ein ruandischer Politiker und Kriegsverbrecher. (de)
- Léon Mugesera (nacido en 1952) es un expolítico ruandés, que tuvo residencia en Quebec, Canadá. Fue deportado de ese país por sus incendiarios discursos anti-tutsis los cuales, según sus críticos, fueron precursores del estallido del genocidio de Ruanda en 1994,Mugesera ya no habitaba en Ruanda cuando estalló la matanza étnica. En 2012 fue extraditando a Ruanda y en 2016 fue condenado a prisión perpetua en Kigali. (es)
- Léon Mugesera (born 1952) is a convicted genocidaire from Rwanda who took residence in Quebec, Canada. He was deported from Canada for an inflammatory anti-Tutsi speech which his critics allege was a precursor to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In 2016,
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