After 16 years of trials and appeals, Leon Mugesera could be on his way back to Rwanda They say you can run but you cannot hide. After 16 years of successfully battling attempts to deport him back to Rwanda to face charges of inciting violence and crimes against humanity, Leon Mugesera could have thought it was all but over. However, towards the end of Dec. 2011, Mugesera, renowned for his speech thought to have inspired the genocide against the Tutsi, was served an 80-page document from the Canada Border Services Agency that contained nothing but the news of the nightmare he had been fighting—a return to Rwanda set for Jan.12. Mugesera could have in fact been deported from Canada back in July 1996 after the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada concluded that his speech on Nov. 17, 1992 amounted to inciting violence and ethnic hatred. The speech, which was relayed many times during the course of the genocide, was so poisonous that the government at the time threatened to take (...)Read more