Posted on 01/28/2012 5:17:23 AM PST by Clive
Alleged Rwandan war criminal Leon Mugesera played Canada's ponderously slow judicial and immigration systems like a concert violinist, but now he is finally where he should have been more than a decade ago.
And that's in Rwanda, and a jail cell in Kigali.
We trust his accommodations are suitable.
Rwanda, in turn, has promised Canada that Mugesera would get a fair trial on charges that he incited the 1993-94 genocide of millions of the Tutsi minority by marauding Hutu militiamen.
Canada, in turn, should promise Canadians to speed up the system to that no alleged war criminal can ever again play the system like Leon Mugesera played it.
Eighteen years? Ridiculous.
Despite how it was spun in court as a last gasp, Rwanda's judicial system has been vetted by the International Criminal Tribunal, and has been deemed suitable for trying perpetrators of the genocide.
And there is, in fact, no longer a death penalty in Rwanda. Nor is there the torture Mugesera alleged.
In the early '90s, however, this was not the case.
Canadian Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire was commander of the UN intervention in Rwanda, and a year later he flew home "broken, disillusioned and suicidal," having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans in only 100 days.
His book, Shake Hands with the Devil, lays it bare.
According to Rwandan authorities, Mugesera was an architect of that genocide, and used his status as vice-president of the ruling Hutu party to ramp up the hostilities.
He referred to Tutsis as "cockroaches," and called on fellow Hutus to kill Tutsi rivals and dump their bodies into Rwanda's rivers.
As the world found out, this was done and done well.
Mugesera fuelled the flames even more by telling his Hutu followers that "the person whose neck you do not cut is the one who will cut yours." But Mugesera, and his lawyers, knew how to play the game, losing appeal after appeal until Quebec Superior Court Judge Michel Delorme finally ruled this week that his court could not override federal rulings declaring Mugesera inadmissible to Canada -- all which led to his immediate deportation.
Welcome home to Kigali, Mr. Mugesera.
Eighteen years was too good of a run.
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The Commonwealth and commonsense are so dissimilar.
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, India, Pakistan, Kenya, South Africa are more sensible than Canada, Australia, New Zealand?
The latter nations have a thing called RULE OF LAW. Sometimes it takes a while for the truth to come out, but there is an old adage that goes “’tis better to let a thousand guilty go free than to punish one innocent”. Or do you not agree with the presumption of innocence so prominent and vital to US jurisprudence?
Way to diss your allies and honour those who despise you. Have you been taking lessons from Barack?
We got Obama so claiming we got sense is another bitter joke.
We got Obama so claiming we got sense is another bitter joke.
Then your post needed a “/sard”
It's kind of like a “/sarc”, but different.
need to remember “sard” gives FR a little added spice I think.
One of the dumbest things ever said!
Thanks.
I hope I didn’t stune your beeber.
packrat35, I couldn’t help but notice that your tag line disagrees with your post.
Naturally the two tribes began to hate each other.
And once you begin to hate your neighbor it is hard to stop.
It's called divide and conqueror. Pick one group and favor them and they will fight to keep their privileges and the other group will fight to take them away and you... well they have no time to fight you. In fact they will ingratiate themselves with you hoping you will support their side of the fight.
No it doesn’t, but releasing a thousand murders into society is just plain stupid.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/magna_carta.htm
Magna Carta promised laws that were good and fair. It states that everyone shall have access to courts and that costs and money should not be an issue if someone wanted to take a problem to the law courts.
It also states that no freeman will be imprisoned or punished without first going through the proper legal system. In future years the word “freeman” was replaced by “no one” to include everybody.
Great, never siad I was against it. Just releasing 1000 criminals.
’tis better to let a thousand guilty go free than to punish one innocent”.
In the case of Christ, despite his innocence, he allowed himself to be sacrificed so that multitudes of the guilty could be set free of their sins.
An interesting dilemma, nevertheless for an innocent man to be found in a situation that should he be set free, murderous others are also set free as a consequence! Might make for a great plotline for a book or action thriller movie!
The Old series Star Trek had an episode about an alien who chose to be locked in a matter antimatter universal buffer chamber with his antiself(who hated the very idea of “another self”) forever rather than risk the destruction of both universes should they had ever confronted one another out side of this “chamber”.
Would I ever have the courage and conviction to makes such a choice? Samson did when he brought down Dagon’s temple, therebye erasing an existential threat to the nation of israel!
As for being able to defy the authorities and accept death to protect the rest of the world, I'd like to think I could be that brave, but I don't know that I could be so selfless and self-sacrificing. Our Lord did, and many lesser men than HE do, but I don't know that I could, which makes me admire those who can and have all the more.
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