{"id":35995,"date":"2017-10-06T13:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/21-genocide-convicts-pardoned\/"},"modified":"2017-10-06T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:02:07","slug":"21-genocide-convicts-pardoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/21-genocide-convicts-pardoned\/","title":{"rendered":"21 genocide convicts pardoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the 21 were pardoned but asked to participate in searching for remains of the genocide victims.<\/p>\n<p>In a public event that took place in Nyamirama Sector of Kayonza District yesterday, organized by Prison Fellowship Rwanda, an organization that promotes unity and reconciliation in the country, the genocide perpetrators regretted their role in genocide and used the opportunity to ask for forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, the chairman of Prison Fellowship Rwanda, Bishop John Rucyahana called on the society to strengthen the practices of unity and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can see these houses and roads that are being constructed do not belong to any ethnic groups, but to all Rwandans. Most of those who sought forgiveness had lied to their families saying that they were innocent. Today, they made a good step towards sustainable reconciliation,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Commissioner General of Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS), Jeanne Chantal Ujeneza called on more genocide inmates to tell the truth of their role in genocide and seek forgiveness as a way to sustain unity and reconciliation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>One of the genocide convicts, Jean Pierre Habimana ,admitted his role in killing six people. He was advised to reveal the location of his victims\u2019 remains so they can be accorded decent burial. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21993 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/inmate.jpg\" alt=\"Inmate pardoned share light moments with survivor\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21995 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/inmates-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21994 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/iinmates.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates pardoned\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21996 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rucyahana.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop John Rucyahana\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21997 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ujeneza.jpg\" alt=\"The Deputy Commissioner General of Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS), Jeanne Chantal Ujeneza \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one inmates from Rwamagana Prison convicted of participating in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi have been linked with survivors\u2019 families to ask for forgiveness for their role in genocide.  <\/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":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","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\/35995","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=35995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35995"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35995"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}