{"id":37265,"date":"2018-04-09T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kwibuka24-rwandan-community-in-belgium\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:27:01","slug":"kwibuka24-rwandan-community-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kwibuka24-rwandan-community-in-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwibuka24: Rwandan community in Belgium commemorates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event was attended by different officials including representatives of international organisations, ambassadors and representatives of Belgium government among others.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, the ambassador of Rwanda in Belgium, Amb. Amandin Rugira told survivors that the government of Rwanda is doing all it can to support them in different aspects of life.<\/p>\n<p>He hailed participants who attended the event saying that commemoration is part of national reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommemoration is a good weapon towards reconstruction; it also helps to tell the truth about what happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9o Mazina, the president of Ibuka (an Umbrella for Genocide survivors) in Belgium, reminded that commemoration strengthens unity among people and helps them not to be held with sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The 24th commemoration takes place after the United Nations Council approved appellation of the \u2018genocide against the Tutsi\u2019 and approved April 7th as the international day to commemorate victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24694 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/77-19-e670b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24696 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/93-10-c1b2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24697 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/lyamukuru_felicite_wayoboye_ibiganiro_umunsi_wose-3b451.jpg\" alt=\"lyamukuru F\u00e9licit\u00e9 was co-ordinating the Commemoration event\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24698 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_wa_ibuka-memoire_justice_-belgique_deo_mazina_avuga_ijambo-f9e4e.jpg\" alt=\"President of Ibuka-Memoire Justice belgique; D\u00e9o Mazina speaking at the event \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24699 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ni_umuhango_witabiriwe_n_abana-4f261.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24700 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6-953-9211d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24701 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igihe_bari_mu_rugendo_rwo_kwibuka-9f216.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands turned up for the event dedicated to remembering lost lives in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24702 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/8-731-3d9b3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Photos: Karirima A. Ngarambe &#038; Rutayisire Jessica}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwandan community in Belgium, diplomatic missions and friends on Saturday gathered in Bruxelles to commemorate the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37265","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\/37265","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=37265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37265"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37265"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}