{{Illness, Wednesday, January 23, made L\u00e9on Mugesera to not continue his explanation on Genocide charges before the court. }} <\/p>\n
Mugesera said he will comply with the advice of his doctors.<\/p>\n
Before getting ill, the court was getting deeper into the anti-Tutsi speech that Mugesera delivered in 1992 in Kabaya of the former Gisenyi.<\/p>\n
The prosecution said this speech is considered as a trigger of the genocide. <\/p>\n
In his explanation, Mugesera said the speech is analyzed as a whole in its context and by a reasonable listener adding that the prosecution explicitly omitted certain passages. <\/p>\n
He believes that if his speech was seen in the context of 1992, this could avoid a defect in reasoning or any misunderstanding.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been said that the speech was applied April 7, 1994. When I decided, I did not know for example that the plane of Habyarimana would be lowered,\u201d Mugesera said.<\/p>\n
Leon Mugesera has also said that he was not an influential member of the MRND, the former ruling party, as stated by the prosecution.<\/p>\n
The hearing on the merits of the trial of Mugesera began a year after his extradition because of numerous reports related to procedural issues raised by the accused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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