Léon Mugesera (born 1952) is a Rwandan expolitical, who lived in Quebec, Canada. He was deported from that country for his inflammatory anti-Tutsi speeches which, according to his critics, were forerunners of the outbreak of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and in 2016 he was sentenced to life imprisonment.1
Being of the Hutu ethnicity, Mugesera was a member of the ruling Hutu party, the MRND, which had strong ties to the Rwandan Armed Forces. He was vice-president of his party for the Gisenyi prefecture.