A Canadian court will today give its final ruling on whether Genocide fugitive Leon Mugesera should be deported to Rwanda ending a decade legal battle of running away from justice.
Mugesera who was supposed to have been deported last week by Thursday, has narrowly extended his deportation twice first by a surprise illness and last Friday his lawyer tried to him more time in the Quebec Superior Court.
There was also an intervention of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Committee against Torture (OHCHR-CAT) said to have requested by his family.
The UN torture office asked the Canadian court to stop the whole process for it to investigate the claims that Mugesera would be tortured by Rwandan government if deported to face justice for his role in the 1994 Genocide.
The Canadian federal government lawyer, Lisa Meziade has however her government have spent over six years assessing if there would be possible torture of 59-year former linguist lecturer when deported but found none.
She added that the federal government is not bound by UN treaties, even if the country ratified them, if they are not incorporated into domestic laws.
The Quebec Superior Court still remains with powers to decide whether Mugesera should be deported or not and immediately orders of his deportation will follow booking of the next flight in the range of hours decided.
It is said that mid this week Mugesera will be brought to the Rwandan soil, according to analysts.
In a 1992 speech, Mugesera called the Tutsi “cockroaches” and “scum,” as he encouraged the Hutu to kill their neighbours.
Mugesera was a vice chairman of the party (MRND) that plunged Rwanda into 1994 Genocide that claimed over one million lives.
In his insidious speech on November 22, 1992, he allegedly told 1,000 party members that “we the people are obliged to take responsibility ourselves and wipe out the Tutsi” and those they should kill and “dump their bodies into the rivers of Rwanda.”
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