Genocide suspect lands in Rwanda

ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> A Rwandan man charged with crimes against humanity has been deported from Canada and arrived in the central African country on Tuesday (January 24).<br/> Leon Mugesera, who lost a 16-year battle to stay in Canada, will face charges of inciting murder, extermination and genocide.<br/> Mugesera, who says he fears torture or death if returned to Rwanda, spent years fighting his deportation in various courts. He and his family lived in the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec.<br/> The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2005 that a speech Mugesera made in Rwanda in 1992 was a crime against humanity by inciting Hutus to kill Tutsis, whom he referred to as cockroaches that should be exterminated.<br/> Rwanda says Mugesera, who was a member of the ruling Hutu party when he made the speech, is a war criminal who was complicit in the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died.<br/> Lawyers for Mugesera argued their client, who taught at a Quebec City college, was a man of integrity who had sheltered ethnic Tutsis.<br/> The United Nations Committee Against Torture had requested Mugesera not be deported until a group of experts could review the case. Ottawa pressed ahead with the deportation.