Rwanda: Genocide Mastermind in Court Today

Leon Mugesera, a Rwandan national believed to be among the masterminds of the 1994 genocide is set to appear at a Kigali court Tuesday. He was deported from Canada on January 24, 16 years after he fled from Rwanda.

Mugesera, a former professor at the National University of Rwanda and vice president of the ruling MRND party, is accused of having called for the extermination of the Tutsis one and half years before the genocide.

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