(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
About half of the Rwandan state budget is based on foreign aid. Since 1994, Norway has provided almost NOK 1 billion in aid and support to Rwanda, of which over 100 million in the last five years. During the same period, conditions for freedom of expression and human rights have become more difficult. The Dutch national, the presidential candidate and the democracy defender Victoire Ingabire were noticed.
Sentenced for genocide ideology. Ingabire fled the 1994 genocide to the Netherlands, graduated in law and eventually became leader of the opposition party UDF. The party has many supporters both in Rwanda and abroad. Many of the politicians live in exile, but in 2010 Ingabire decided that she would go back to take part in the presidential election and challenge Paul Kagame. It was not well received by Kagame and his authorities. After Ingabire stated that one must keep in mind all the victims of the genocide, including those who came from the Hutu majority, she was arrested, imprisoned and sentenced. The lawyer who was going to defend her was also jailed and was forced to
"Everyone who betrays the country has to pay the price wherever they are"
leaving Rwanda. Ingabire was sentenced in the first trial, and after she appealed, the sentence was increased from 8 to 15 years in prison in the next trial. In a 2012 Human Rights Watch report on Rwanda, she read what she was accused of and convicted of: The verdict has been massively criticized by Human Rights Watch and other human rights organizations, and is described as politically motivated.
