{"id":33763,"date":"2017-04-07T16:32:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kwibuka-23-rwanda-is-your-family-president-kagame\/"},"modified":"2017-04-09T08:57:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T08:57:01","slug":"kwibuka-23-rwanda-is-your-family-president-kagame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kwibuka-23-rwanda-is-your-family-president-kagame\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwibuka 23: Rwanda is your family\u2014President Kagame to survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has lit the flame of remembrance as the country begins the 23rd commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Kagame who was along with First Lady have been joined by AU Chairperson Moussa Fakito in honor of over 1million victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.}<\/p>\n<p>A he launched the commemoration; Kagame advised Rwandans on relentless efforts in rebuilding the country following the 1994 genocide against Tutsi and comforted genocide survivors.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe best answer to this tragedy is to work every day to build this nation for every Rwandan and anyone who wishes to live here.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He told genocide survivors that \u201cYou are not alone. You have lost your families but there is one family that still belongs to you: our nation.This nation is your family; it is the family of every Rwandan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kagame thanked those in Africa who took a stand against denial of the Genocide against the Tutsi, resisting those who tried to turn victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi into perpetrators and recognized individuals such as Capt. Diagne of Senegal and Ghanaian peacekeepers who chose to do the right thing. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19178 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/33047451014_d3e00b1a22_k.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame and the AU Chairperson Moussa Fakito lighting  the flame of remembrance today at Gisozi memorial.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19177 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/33734583122_4fe79d5fb6_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19175 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/33891691105_03adaccf20_k.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame,First  Lady , AU Chairperson Moussa Fakito and government officials paying tribute to victims of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi at Gisozi memorial.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has lit the flame of remembrance as the country begins the 23rd commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Kagame who was along with First Lady have been joined by AU Chairperson Moussa Fakito in honor of over 1million victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.} A he launched the [&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":[72,75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/33763","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=33763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33763"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33763"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}