{{IBUKA-a genocide Survivors body, has protested against High Court sentencing of 8-year jail term handed to Victoire Ingabire.}}<\/p>\n
IBUKA argues that High Court ignored the gravity of the offences for which Ingabire was convicted.<\/p>\n
Dr. Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu, the president of IBUKA, called on the prosecution to file an appeal to challenge the verdict at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cEight years is a petty sentence considering that all the crimes she was convicted of, especially trivialising the Genocide were premeditated. The speech she made at Kigali Memorial Centre was clearly planned,\u201d said Dusingizemungu.<\/p>\n
Dr. Dusingizemungu said, \u201cIngabire chose the most sensitive place in the country to mock the Genocide survivors, she deserves the toughest punishment that would act as a warning to whoever tries to minimize the genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n
Part of the basis of the court to give Ingabire a lenient sentence was a letter she wrote to the President asking for clemency.<\/p>\n
However, according to Dusingizemungu, the consultations made by IBUKA clearly indicated and proved that Ingabire did not ask for pardon from the President, and that her letter was shoddy in a way that she did not clearly indicate the addressee.<\/p>\n
Ingabire\u2019s letter was addressed to \u201cThe Highest Authority of Our Country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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