{"id":37249,"date":"2018-04-07T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-emphasizes-truth-telling-as-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:24:00","slug":"kagame-emphasizes-truth-telling-as-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-emphasizes-truth-telling-as-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame emphasizes truth-telling as Rwanda remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kagame was speaking Saturday at Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre while opening the Mourning Week and the 100 days of commemoration of the 19994 Genocide Against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n

The event was attended by different government officials, representatives of different missions in the country and representatives of survivor associations.<\/p>\n

In his remarks, Kagame said that Rwanda will not stop commemorating atrocities that took place in the country 24 years ago.<\/p>\n

He said that when history is revealed, people continue to understand the truth. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is necessary to found on towards development. We remember the truth, and those who don\u2019t remember look down on it, but the truth will remain there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the 24th time we commemorate, but, it seems like the first time. Commemorating is to start afresh as we remember our nature, families, lives and the country; when we commemorate we go back in these times,\u201d he reminded.<\/p>\n

The Head of State said that commemorating remind Rwandans to face their history and noted that commemoration reminds Rwandans that when they don\u2019t watch out same history could re-occur. He said that there are things need to be done to avoid re-occurrence of such history.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCommemoration reminds that we Rwandans should take a lead in solving own problems. We own our history and our problems. Commemoration reminds us that bad history could come from away or others support us to cause it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Kagame said that the history reminds Rwandans that foreigners could participate in falsifying them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we could do is to continue to strengthening our institutions, economy, security and unity as we continue to construct Rwandan society. We should not get held by bad history,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n

He added that the country continue to leave bad history behind through rebuilding, capacity building and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Paul Kagame has said that the truth of what happened in the country during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi will not be blacked out and urged Rwandans to sustain it as they commemorate towards national construction.<\/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":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37249","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\/37249","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=37249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37249"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37249"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}