{"id":34214,"date":"2017-04-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/aif-rwanda-staff-pay-tribute-to-genocide-victims\/"},"modified":"2017-04-28T07:33:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T07:33:45","slug":"aif-rwanda-staff-pay-tribute-to-genocide-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/aif-rwanda-staff-pay-tribute-to-genocide-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"AIF Rwanda staff pay tribute to Genocide victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Staff Members of Africa Improved Foods (AIF) Rwanda have paid tribute to over one million victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and visited Kigali Genocide Memorial to learn how the Genocide was planned, executed, its devastation and the recovery over the last 23 years.}<\/p>\n<p>Led by the company\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, Amar Ali, the group toured the memorial, yesterday, and laid wreaths on mass graves in tribute to more than 250,000 victims of the Genocide against Tutsi laid to rest there.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was in line with the 23rd Genocide commemoration (Kwibuka23) under the theme \u201cRemember the Genocide against the Tutsi, Fight Genocide Ideology, Build on Our Progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team which was mainly comprised of the Company\u2019s Management got to learn about the consequences of the Genocide and how Rwandans are steadily rebuilding the nation by promoting social cohesion and reconciliation. <\/p>\n<p>Amar conceded that Genocide against the Tutsi was a very humbling yet baffling experience. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that Rwandans have found it in their hearts to forgive and actually build something new is very inspiring not just to me or Rwandans in general but to the whole continent. Not many people do that. It\u2019s very inspiring to witness and be part of,\u201d Amar said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19657 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aif_ceo_amar_right_lay_wreaths_on_mass_graves_at_kigali_genocide_memorial_on_wednesday.jpg\" alt=\"AIF CEO Amar (right) lay wreaths on mass graves at Kigali Genocide Memorial, on Wednesday.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19658 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aif_ceo_amar_delivers_message_to_staff_at_kigali_genocide_memorial_on_wednesday.jpg\" alt=\"AIF CEO Amar delivers message to staff at Kigali Genocide Memorial, on Wednesday.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19659 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aif_ceo_amar_delivers_remarks_to_staff_at_kigali_genocide_memorial_on_wednesday.jpg\" alt=\"AIF CEO Amar delivers remarks to staff at Kigali Genocide Memorial, on Wednesday.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19660 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aif_rwanda_staff_lay_wreaths_on_mass_graves_at_kigali_genocide_memorial.jpg\" alt=\"AIF Rwanda Staff lay wreaths on mass graves at Kigali Genocide Memorial\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19661 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aif_rwanda_staff_pay_tribute_to_genocide_victims_at_kigali_genocide_memorial.jpg\" alt=\"AIF Rwanda Staff pay tribute to Genocide Victims at Kigali Genocide Memorial.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>By Jean d\u2019Amour Mugabo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Staff Members of Africa Improved Foods (AIF) Rwanda have paid tribute to over one million victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and visited Kigali Genocide Memorial to learn how the Genocide was planned, executed, its devastation and the recovery over the last 23 years.} Led by the company\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, Amar Ali, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2813],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-jean-damour-mugabo-3"],"bylines":[{"id":2813,"name":"Jean d\u2019Amour Mugabo","slug":"jean-damour-mugabo-3","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":2813,"name":"Jean d\u2019Amour Mugabo","slug":"jean-damour-mugabo-3","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\/34214","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34214"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34214"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}