{{Embattled genocide suspect Leon Mugesera has told court that he had no hatred against former Rwanda Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana}}.
Mugesera on April 15 refuted charges of hate against the former Prime Minister who was brutally killed in the early days of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.
Mugesera was explaining about the crimes related to his inflammatory speech delivered at Kabaya in November 1992.
Prosecution asked him to explain a sequence of his speech where he showed that he had hatred against politicians including former Prime Minister Uwilingiyimana.
An extract from his speech notes: ‘An important point! We must stand as one man. One who attacks one of us, we will not give him a way.
Our inspectors will go nowhere. Others will be sent to Nyaruhengeri Region to take care of Prime Minister’s children. You have to understand that’.
Mugesera claims not to be linked to the murder of Uwilingiyimana, adding that even his wife came from the same region with Uwilingiyimana.
He said he had not killed anyone as much as he has directed the attack on anyone.
However, Mugesera said the only hate existed between him and former Prime Minister Twagiramungu for political matters.
On 5 counts of which he is charged, he has already refuted all four.
Mugesera continues to insist that the enemies which he refers in his speech were people who attacked Rwanda from Uganda.
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