{"id":36908,"date":"2018-02-02T08:52:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T08:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-joins-rwandans-in-commemorating-national\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T10:22:38","slug":"kagame-joins-rwandans-in-commemorating-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-joins-rwandans-in-commemorating-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame joins Rwandans in commemorating national heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his twitter handle Kagame wrote, \u201cHappy Heroes\u2019 Day\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 24th Heroes Day was marked under the theme \u2018Let\u2019s Uphold Heroism to build the Rwanda we want\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>On her Twitter handle the Minister of Sports and Culture, Julienne Uwacu said that commemorating heroes is to value what they fought for; which is having a good nation.<\/p>\n<p>She urged youth to uphold heroism by building the nation they want. <\/p>\n<p>The three categories of Rwandan Heroes  are Imanzi, Imena and Ingezi.<\/p>\n<p>In Imanzi are, late Gen. Maj Fred Gisa Rwigema former commandant of Rwanda Patriotic Army and Unknown Soldier.<\/p>\n<p>In Imena, they include King Mutara III Rudahigwa, Michel Rwagasana, Agathe Uwiringiyimana, F\u00e9licit\u00e9 Niyitegeka and Nyange Students.<\/p>\n<p>Currently no person has been honoured in Ingenzi category.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23910 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_9948-e5d51.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame lay wreaths at the Heroes\u2019 Square in Remera, Kigali\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23909 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_9962-63456.jpg\" alt=\"Kagame lay wreaths at the Heroes\u2019 Square in Remera, Kigali.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23908 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_9987-aa3f1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23911 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_9935-ec0d7.jpg\" alt=\"Distinguished senior government officials gathered to commemorate national heroes.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Rwandans commemorated Heroes\u2019 day, President Paul Kagagame also joined them by laying wreaths at the Heroes\u2019 Square in Remera, Kigali.<\/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-36908","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\/36908","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=36908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36908"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36908"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}