{"id":24586,"date":"2016-04-14T01:56:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T01:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/university-students-urged-on-countering-genocide\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T01:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T01:55:36","slug":"university-students-urged-on-countering-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/university-students-urged-on-countering-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"University students urged on countering genocide ideology on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{University students from University of Rwanda in Huye have been urged to make best choices and be careful while using social media as a way towards countering and resisting people spreading genocide ideology through social networks.}<\/p>\n<p>The call was made on Tuesday by Dr. Usta Kayitesi, the head of Huye Campus of the University of Rwanda yesterday in a talk aimed at sharing ideas on how to avoid genocide ideology spread through social media. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are first of all required to be vigilant since all that glitters are not gold. Let\u2019s be guided by carefulness, learn to make better choices and avoid distraction since we have a beautiful country of which its truth becomes a heavy burden for many people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kayitesi also reminded students about laws punishing convicts of genocide ideology and requested them to avoid spreading all received message from social networks.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Francois Masabo who talked about the role of social media in spreading genocide ideology noted that children born in post-genocide period may consider words trivializing genocide as true and requested them to be the first to resist such false information about Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen no one reacts against what is said, it is likely to thrive. We have duties of identifying channels through which genocide ideology is spread and fight against it anyway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some students who attended the talk demonstrated frustrations over genocide denial cast through social media and committed at react against it.<\/p>\n<p>They committed to avoiding trivialization of 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, react against ideas falsifying truth about Rwandan and report genocide apologists.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11663 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dr._uster_kayitesi_yasabye_urubyiruko_kugira_ubushishozi.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Usta Kayitesi, the head of Huye Campus\/University of Rwanda \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{University students from University of Rwanda in Huye have been urged to make best choices and be careful while using social media as a way towards countering and resisting people spreading genocide ideology through social networks.} The call was made on Tuesday by Dr. Usta Kayitesi, the head of Huye Campus of the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586","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=24586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24586"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24586"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}