{"id":36894,"date":"2018-01-30T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/fare-thee-well-patrick-mazimhaka\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T10:26:43","slug":"fare-thee-well-patrick-mazimhaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/fare-thee-well-patrick-mazimhaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Fare thee well Patrick Mazimhaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was in the morning of the 25th January 2018, that the news of the death of the seasoned politician, diplomat and academician were announced.<\/p>\n<p>He passed away at 70 at a hospital in India, due to some complications after a surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Patriotic to the core, he&#8217;s among the people who had the idea of founding RANU (which came to be RPF Inkotanyi) in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>In April 1992, he took part in the discussions of the Arusha Accords, the peace agreement between Habyarimana&#8217;s government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).<\/p>\n<p>The group that represented RPF Inkotanyi in the Arusha Accords in Tanzania was Patrick Mazimhaka; Lt. Gen Charles Muhire, an Ex-AirForce General; Brig. Gen Andrew Rwigamba who came to lead the National Police of Rwanda; Pasteur Bizimungu who came to be the President of Rwanda [1994-2000] and the researcher Tom Ndahiro.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23877 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/f332.jpg\" alt=\"The religious ceremonies were held in the Anglican church located in Kibagabaga\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23876 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dkedx.jpg\" alt=\"Many were there to send their farewells to late Patrick Mazimhaka\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23878 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nf3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23879 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jf4e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23880 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fewe.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23881 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/23-7.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Mazimhaka died at the age of 70\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23882 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kws.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23883 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dm3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23885 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/djiwq3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23886 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/feds.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Kayumbu Mazimhaka, has, today, been laid to rest. The former Minister in the Office of the President and former Deputy Chairperson of the African Union&#8217;s African Commission, was one of Rwanda\u2019s leading political figures during the liberation struggle. <\/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":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/36894","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=36894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36894"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36894"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}