{"id":37308,"date":"2018-04-14T14:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T14:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/aegis-trust-awarded-for-fighting-against-the\/"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:35:37","slug":"aegis-trust-awarded-for-fighting-against-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/aegis-trust-awarded-for-fighting-against-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Aegis Trust awarded for fighting against the Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aegis Trust in an international organization that works to prevent genocide, crimes against humanity and mass atrocities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Aegis Trust was recognized yesterday in an event that took place at Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Gisozi for preserving genocide history and outstanding role in peace promotion.<\/p>\n<p>The award was named after \u2018Raphael Lemkin\u2019, of Poland-Jewish descent who coined the word \u2018genocide\u2019 between 1943 and 1944 and initiated the Genocide Convention.<\/p>\n<p>While presenting the award, the Poland Foreign Affairs Minister, Jacek Czaputowicz said that it is terrible to see how the world failed to prevent the genocide from reoccurring after the one that had been committed against the Jewish and latter that committed against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 250,000 victims who died as a result of hatred are laid to rest in this place, it simply means that the World has failed to combat the proliferation of crimes and murder,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Aegis Trust\u2019s job, Jacek said that it is not only justice that has the job to prevent genocide from happening, but they need other humble people who have to maintain history and promote peace so that what happened would not re-occur.<\/p>\n<p>The State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community, Ambassador Olivier Nduhungirehe said that the genocide could not happen when they are no preparation activities like trivializing the human being.<\/p>\n<p>He said that it is miserable to see countries which do not arrest or bring genocide against the Tutsi suspects to book.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI thank countries that arrested, tried or extradited people suspected of role in the genocide against the Tutsi. But, we still have the journey as many countries especially in Europe and North America continue to drag feet in bringing suspects to book,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Aegis Trust Regional Director, Freddy Mutanguha welcomed the award saying such recognition encourages them to work harder. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis award comes to raise our voice in uniting people and countries and we aim to increase efforts in fighting the genocide, murder and loss of lives of innocents in the World,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24786 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry4b7510-e73a1.jpg\" alt=\"Poland Foreign Affairs Minister, Jacek Czaputowicz  (R) presents the award to Aegis Trust\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24785 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry4b7448-98a8e.jpg\" alt=\"Raphael Lemkin International Award  presented to the Aegis Trust\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24784 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry4b7568-2-82dda.jpg\" alt=\"Different officials in the event\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24788 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry4b7656-4736c.jpg\" alt=\"Poland Foreign Affairs Minister, Jacek Czaputowicz  speaks at the awarding ceremony\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24789 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry4b7612-3-73101.jpg\" alt=\"Nduhungirehe speaks at the event\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24787 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry4b7666-4390a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aegis Trust, an organization that maintains Kigali Genocide Memorial Center, has been recognized with a Raphael Lemkin International Award by the government of Poland .<\/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-37308","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\/37308","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=37308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37308"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37308"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}