A brutal and uncompromising verdict
Kagame has jailed opposition leader Victoire Ingabire after she was convicted of treason and received an eight-year sentence.
Kagame's court found her guilty of denying the 1994 genocide and of conspiring to commit terrorism.
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A Rwandan court sentenced the country’s top opposition political leader to eight years in prison on Tuesday for treason and on a charge unique to this central African nation torn apart by vicious ethnic attacks 18 years ago — genocide ideology.
wandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire jailed.
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| Ingabire victoire The would-Be President of Rwanda Now sentenced to 8 years imprisonment |
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| All hope is dead for those Hutu children There is nothing: no hope, no dream, no future, no life. |
The court also found her guilty of "belittling" Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
Ingabire was not in court to hear the verdict as she has been boycotting the trial, saying it is politically motivated.
The Unified Democratic Forces leader was arrested in April 2010 and was barred from standing in elections later that year.
The BBC's Prudent Nsengiyumva in the capital, Kigali, says her lawyer, the deputy UDF leader and a number of her supporters were in court.
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| For that Hutu mother : There is nothing: no hope, no dream, no future, no life. |
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| For those Hutu children : There is nothing: no hope, no dream, no future, no life. |
She had also faced terrorism charges, but these were dropped during the two-year trial.
The UDF has 30 days to appeal against the verdict.
Ingabire, a Hutu, returned from exile in the Netherlands in January 2010 - and has been in jail since her arrest.
She has questioned why Rwanda's official memorial to the 1994 genocide does not include any Hutus.
Does the World Community remain supporting the bloody Rwandan dictator?







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