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Aboriginal leader's hate crimes case delayed again
Thursday, July 1, 2004
David Ahenakew, an Aboriginal leader from Canada, will not go to trial on hate crimes charges until November due to the withdrawal of his lawyer.
Ahenakew, a former chief of the Assembly of First Nations, was charged after making statements to a newspaper reporter that were considered anti-Semitic.
He said the genocide of Jewish people was justified in order to "clean up the world." Later, he said the media was controlled by Jewish people.
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Ahenakew's lawyer withdraws, trial delayed
(CBC 6/30)
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