{"id":37188,"date":"2018-03-28T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mineduc-asks-schools-to-organize-genocide\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T14:10:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:10:57","slug":"mineduc-asks-schools-to-organize-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mineduc-asks-schools-to-organize-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"MINEDUC asks schools to organize Genocide commemoration events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though students are set to start first term holidays tomorrow, MINEDUC has urged them to attend the commemoration activities by participating in discussions from their villages.<\/p>\n<p>Through the announcement signed by the State Minister for Primary and Secondary Education in MINEDUC, Dr. Isaac Munyakazi, students were requested to participate in different activities expected in the week while at home. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Education would like to remind you to participate in 24th commemoration activities which will be organized from villages, continue to comfort survivors, participating in activities to clean genocide memorials, and participating in discussions and all planned activities,\u201d the announcement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement says that the role of education is to train Rwandan children to avoid any form of genocide ideology and being explained about the reason for commemoration and dignify victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, as well as reflecting the heroism of former Rwanda Patriotic Army that liberated the country and individuals who performed remarkable activities like \u2018Pact Protectors\u2019.<\/p>\n<p> Though the commemoration week last seven days, remembrance activities continue until July, a reason why MINEDUC requested all schools to organize a commemoration event to remember students and teachers killed in the genocide.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSchool management from different levels are requested to  organize a particular day meant to remember students and teachers who were killed during the genocide, particularly head teachers and teachers should play the big part during the commemoration week,\u201d the announcement reads. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24595 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umunyamabanga_wa_leta_ushinzwe_amashuri_abanza_n_ayisumbuye_dr_isaac_munyakazi-40ad0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) has called on all school head teachers to organize a one-day genocide commemoration activity at their respective schools in 100 days of remembrance of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi period starting on April 7th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/37188","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37188"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37188"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}