RWANDA. NO DEATH PENALTY IF CANADA DEPORTS GENOCIDE SUSPECT

Rwanda was ready to forego seeking the death penalty to ensure that Leon Mugesera was returned from Canada to face charges related to the 1994 genocide, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Martin Ngoga said.
Canada Supreme Court ruled on June 28 that Mugesera helped incite the slaughter and should be deported to face trial in his homeland. With all of Mugesera's legal channels exhausted, the Canadian government had to decide whether Canada, a country without the death penalty, would send a man to Rwanda where he faced a possible death sentence.
"We are happy with the decision and we are ready to make any necessary guarantee that any party would require, including that this man would not face the death penalty," Ngoga told reporters.
"For us, there is nothing that should stand in the way of having this man tried in Rwanda," Ngoga said. "We have assembled all the necessary evidence to have him prosecuted if he is brought to Rwanda. We are ready and we have expressed our intention to have him here."
Mugesera was accused of encouraging attacks on Rwanda's Tutsi minority in a 1992 speech. At the time, he was an adviser to Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose death in a plane crash in April 1994 sparked the genocide.
"In this case, the allegation of incitement to the crime of genocide was well founded," the court ruled. "Mugesera's message was delivered in a public place at a public meeting and would have been clearly understood by the audience."