{"id":20468,"date":"2015-08-20T09:52:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T09:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-special-envoy-for-the-great-lakes-honours\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T02:28:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T02:28:53","slug":"us-special-envoy-for-the-great-lakes-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-special-envoy-for-the-great-lakes-honours\/","title":{"rendered":"US Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Honours victims of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{At Nyamata Genocide Memorial Centre, the US Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa Thomas Perriello, Ambassador Erica J. Barks-Ruggles, and Officials from Bugesera District together with genocide survivor\u2019s representatives laid wreaths on the mass graves to honour and remember the more than a million lives lost in the Genocide against Tutsi.}<\/p>\n<p>The event was a part of activities that took place on Thursday in Bugesera District during the announcement of an $87,000 grant from the U.S Ambassador\u2019s Fund for Cultural Preservation, which will be used for training and artifact conservation at Nyamata Genocide Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Perriello is in Rwanda for a work visit.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday he met with President Paul Kagame and discussed issues of FDLR and Burundi crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Perriello was appointed US Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region early last month and he met President Kagame as part of his efforts to better understand issues in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the event:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8389 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bunamiye_abazize_jenoside_yakorewe_abatutsi-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8383 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mukarumanzi_n_intumwa_ya_usa_mu_karere_k_ibiyaga_bigari.jpg\" alt=\"A Genocide Survivor with Thomas Perriello observe a minute of silence to honor the victims of the Genocide\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8384 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-52.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8385 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-59.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8386 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-60.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8387 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/8-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8388 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/10-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Photos taken by {{Ange de la Victoire D.}}<br \/>\nangedelavictoire@igihe.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{At Nyamata Genocide Memorial Centre, the US Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa Thomas Perriello, Ambassador Erica J. Barks-Ruggles, and Officials from Bugesera District together with genocide survivor\u2019s representatives laid wreaths on the mass graves to honour and remember the more than a million lives lost in the Genocide against Tutsi.} The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000069497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[518],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-20468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-ange-de-la-victoire-dusabemungu"],"bylines":[{"id":518,"name":"Ange de la Victoire Dusabemungu","slug":"ange-de-la-victoire-dusabemungu","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":518,"name":"Ange de la Victoire Dusabemungu","slug":"ange-de-la-victoire-dusabemungu","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000069497,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20468.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20468.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20468.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20468.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20468.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20468.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000069497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20468"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=20468"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=20468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}