{"id":30713,"date":"2016-11-30T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/produce-evidence-rwanda-to-burundi-on\/"},"modified":"2016-12-03T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T03:38:09","slug":"produce-evidence-rwanda-to-burundi-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/produce-evidence-rwanda-to-burundi-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Produce evidence: Rwanda to Burundi on assassination allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spokesperson of Rwanda Defense Forces, Lt. Col. Ren\u00e9 Ngendahimana has scorned at reports from Burundi that the Rwanda government is responsible for plotting an  assassination attempt on Burundi\u2019s Willy Nyamitwe, President Pierre  Nkurunziza&#8217;s media adviser and chief spokesman near his home in the Kajaga area outside the capital, Bujumbura, on Monday, saying  Burundi should make such wild allegations  backed with empirical evidence, as  Rwanda has nothing, whatsoever, to gain  from the death of the said  Nyamitwe. <\/p>\n<p>Ngendahimana has told IGIHE that Rwanda got wind of such rumours in the media.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also received such information from the media. They should release evidences proving that Rwandan soldier or Rwanda is behind the attack. Indeed they should identify who is that soldier since all Rwandan soldiers have identifications,\u201che said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should also note that it is not Rwanda\u2019s target to kill other countries\u2019 officials. Rwanda can\u2019t reap  any benefit from seeing Nyamitwe dead;  he poses no threat that Rwanda can only feel secured  if he is dead,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is in  the process of relocating Burundi refugees accommodated in Rwanda following Burundi\u2019s behavior towards Rwanda\u2019s hospitality where it accused the country of fuelling  chaos in Burundi.   <\/p>\n<p>Burundi accuses Rwanda of hosting army officers who plotted a coup against Mr Nkurunziza in May 2015 after he announced he was running for a third presidential term, allegations which the government of Rwanda refuted. <\/p>\n<p>More than 500 people have died and at least 270,000 have fled the conflict in Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi police spokesman Pierre Nkurukiye has made a wild allegation that instructions were  sent from Rwanda to renegades  in the Burundian military to kill Willy Nyamitwe.<\/p>\n<p>A Burundian colonel and two corporals have been arrested, he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16739 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/lt_col_rene_uvugira_igisirikare_cy_u_rwanda.jpg\" alt=\"The spokesperson of Rwanda Defense Forces, Lt. Col. Ren\u00e9 Ngendahimana \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spokesperson of Rwanda Defense Forces, Lt. Col. Ren\u00e9 Ngendahimana has scorned at reports from Burundi that the Rwanda government is responsible for plotting an assassination attempt on Burundi\u2019s Willy Nyamitwe, President Pierre Nkurunziza&#8217;s media adviser and chief spokesman near his home in the Kajaga area outside the capital, Bujumbura, on Monday, saying Burundi should [&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-30713","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\/30713","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=30713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30713"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30713"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}