{"id":33980,"date":"2017-04-17T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kwibuka23-genocide-survivors-in-belgium\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T10:29:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T10:29:03","slug":"kwibuka23-genocide-survivors-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kwibuka23-genocide-survivors-in-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwibuka23: Genocide survivors in Belgium commemorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The association of survivors of genocide survivors based in Belgium URGT asbl, (Union des Rescap\u00e9s du G\u00e9nocide des Tutsi) has commemorated victims of 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.}<\/p>\n<p>The commemoration was held on Saturday organized in collaboration withTerritoires de la M\u00e9moire\u2019 organization and Li\u00e8ge city leadership. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s ambassador to Belgium, Olivier Nduhungirehe who was the guest of honor lauded organizers of the event held annually noting that remembering genocide victims helps to regain strength.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are gathered here to remember families, friends, colleagues killed for being Tutsi,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Nduhungirehe lauded RPF-Inkotanyi soldiers for stopping genocide and demonstrated heroism in rescuing Tutsi. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI voice my appreciation to RPF-Inkotanyi soldiers for their sacrifice to liberate Rwanda. We also think about 10 Belgian soldiers in UN mission killed including Corporal Christophe Renwa a native in Li\u00e8ge,&#8221; said Nduhungirehe.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Jamin, the representative of &#8220;Territoires de la M\u00e9moire&#8221;, stressed the need of commemorating highlighting that development emerges as a person learns from the past.<\/p>\n<p>Ikirizaboro Anne Marie, the president of URGT commended the embassy to Belgium and Li\u00e8ge city leadership for standing with them in commemorations saying that 1994 genocide victims will never be forgotten.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19425 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/14-263-293d3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19424 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/40-25-080e2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The association of survivors of genocide survivors based in Belgium URGT asbl, (Union des Rescap\u00e9s du G\u00e9nocide des Tutsi) has commemorated victims of 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.} The commemoration was held on Saturday organized in collaboration withTerritoires de la M\u00e9moire\u2019 organization and Li\u00e8ge city leadership. Rwanda\u2019s ambassador to Belgium, Olivier Nduhungirehe who was 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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33980","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=33980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33980"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33980"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}