{"id":37301,"date":"2018-04-13T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/commemoration-is-to-dignify-victims-of-the\/"},"modified":"2018-04-17T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T14:46:34","slug":"commemoration-is-to-dignify-victims-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/commemoration-is-to-dignify-victims-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration is to dignify victims of the genocide- Senate President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Makuza was speaking Friday while closing the commemoration week at Rebero Genocide Memorial in Kigali where slain politicians are laid to rest.<\/p>\n

He said that Rwandans have committed commemoration period as time to re-dignify victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi who had been ridiculed and brutality killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day, we should use this time to challenge ourselves, remind one another and reflect on the reason that caused this to happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He reminded that commemoration activities continue in 100 days from different parts of the country. He said that commemorating is a Rwandan culture that has been there from the past. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur ancestors believed that when a person is dead does not that they are completely gone. Rwandans used to commemorate their family members and at the events they used to practice rituals which aimed at showing the deceased that families still love, honor and value them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Makuza said that commemoration shows the value and right a human being has had in Rwandan society.<\/p>\n

For the genocide against the Tutsi, Makuza said is a special programme coming from the recent bad history of the country, a history which he said was caused by bad politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe politics of divisionism and hatred led us to the genocide against the Tutsi and ruined Rwandan community starting from survivors and other consequences caused,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In a way to generate solutions to problems, Makuza said that the country chose to \u2018remember-unite and renew\u2019.<\/p>\n

Makuza said that the genocide against the Tutsi did not happen by accident; he said it was prepared and happened due to bad politics and leadership.<\/p>\n

Speaking about slain politicians, Makuza said that if the country had had many politicians which similar spirit, the genocide would never have happened nor had such severity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe honor we owe these politicians we commemorate today is to embrace their heritage and assume the responsibilities to avoid any divisionism but uphold unity of Rwandans,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cCommemorating politicians laid to rest in this memorial site reminds us to borrow a leaf from them as all Rwandans, politicians and leaders from different categories,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Twelve politicians and over 14,000 more victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi are laid to rest there at Rebero Genocide Memorial Center.<\/p>\n

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Senate President, Barnard Makuza has said that the mourning week and 100 days of the commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi is a time to reflect and honor victims whose lives were taken by the genocide.<\/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":[197],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-john-mbaraga"],"bylines":[{"id":197,"name":"John Mbaraga","slug":"john-mbaraga","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":19}],"contributors":[{"id":197,"name":"John Mbaraga","slug":"john-mbaraga","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":19}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301","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=37301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37301"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37301"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}