{"id":37580,"date":"2018-05-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/govt-chauffeurs-commemorate\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:24:15","slug":"govt-chauffeurs-commemorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/govt-chauffeurs-commemorate\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt chauffeurs commemorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commemoration event took place on last Sunday, 27th May 2018, and started by a Walk-to-Remember procession that was followed by a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking with IGIHE, the President of Association of Chauffeurs for state Officials, Rugira Serge, said that commemorating was the strongest arm to ensure that the Genocide never occurs again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were drawn to do this by a desire to commemorate our history, but also to remember Chauffeurs who perished during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis \u201d, he said<\/p>\n<p>Rugira added that there were some chauffeurs that were actively involved in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis, advising his peers not to follow their steps, but to actively fight against Genocide ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking Chauffeurs in general to actively fight against Genocide ideologies. Our actions should not be influenced by our employers, so to ensure that the Genocide never occur again\u201d, he remarked<\/p>\n<p>The Chauffeurs also donated foodstuffs and home appliance worth Rwf300 000 to an elder family in Gisozi sector. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25522 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-1341-13f38.jpg\" alt=\"Chauffeurs of State Officials convened together to mark the 24th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25521 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bakoze_urugendo_rwo_kwibuka-ddba4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25523 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-1134-d8dd6.jpg\" alt=\"The Chauffeurs donated foodstuffs and home appliance worth Rwf300 000\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25524 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-1955-8dc4b_1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers and Chauffeurs of State Officials convened together last week to mark the 24th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis, paying tribute to fallen peers. <\/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-37580","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\/37580","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=37580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37580"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37580"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}