{"id":2929,"date":"2012-08-18T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T12:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/300-rwandans-protest-in-belgium-against-congolese\/"},"modified":"2012-08-18T12:02:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T12:02:45","slug":"300-rwandans-protest-in-belgium-against-congolese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/300-rwandans-protest-in-belgium-against-congolese\/","title":{"rendered":"300 Rwandans Protest in Belgium Against Congolese Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{More than Three hundred Rwandan nationals living in Belgium have today noon taken to the streets to protest against what they termed as racist and xenophobic attacks by Congolese nationals. }} <\/p>\n<p>Rwandans both in DRC and Belgium have been attacked by congolese nationals in the past weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Twagirimana Emmanuel the leader of Rwandan Diaspora in Belgium told IGIHE via telephone, &#8221; We are protesting to show that we reject attacks from congolese nationals. We cannot live like this. This must stop immidiately&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Twagiramana told IGIHE that Eight Rwandans have since been attacked most of whom were admited to hospitals with severe injuries.<\/p>\n<p>However,the Belgium government has since deported 18 congolese national in connection with the attacks against Rwandan community in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwandan protestors demanded the Belgium government to accord the security to deter any further attacks by Congolese nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks against Rwandans started in 2011 during presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1591 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bxxls.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{More than Three hundred Rwandan nationals living in Belgium have today noon taken to the streets to protest against what they termed as racist and xenophobic attacks by Congolese nationals. }} Rwandans both in DRC and Belgium have been attacked by congolese nationals in the past weeks. Twagirimana Emmanuel the leader of Rwandan Diaspora in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[377],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-olivier-muhirwa"],"bylines":[{"id":377,"name":"Olivier MUHIRWA","slug":"olivier-muhirwa","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":377,"name":"Olivier MUHIRWA","slug":"olivier-muhirwa","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}