{"id":37817,"date":"2018-07-05T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/don-t-let-the-country-fall-back-into-darkness\/"},"modified":"2018-07-09T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T10:38:53","slug":"don-t-let-the-country-fall-back-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/don-t-let-the-country-fall-back-into-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t let the country fall back into darkness\u2014Kagame tells youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Head of State was speaking yesterday in Kigali at the 24th Liberation Day Party he hosted with First Lady Jeannette Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame hosted the party following the celebration of the Liberation Day on national level in an event that took place in Muhanga District, Southern Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to youth below 24 years, Kagame reminded them that where the country has reached today is a result of many sacrifices. He also requested them not to let the country to ever go back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever forget that we are here as a result of hard work, sacrifices, people losing their lives. The future is in your hands and if you allow it to go backwards, history will not forgive you,\u201d Kagame told the youth below 24 years old.<\/p>\n<p>In Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) Liberation struggle, youth sacrificed their lives and played vital role fighting the genocidal government which resulted in stopping the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and re-building the nation.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26085 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pk_3-22-4483b.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame yesterday hosted the 24th Liberation Day Party \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26084 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_paul_kagame_yabwiye_urubyiruko_ruri_munsi_y_imyaka_24_ko_iterambere_igihugu_kimaze_kugeraho_kirikesha_ubwitange_no_gukorana_umurava_by_abitangiye_urugamba_rwo_kukibohora-b1d67.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame speaks at the 24th Liberation Day Party \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26083 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_kagame_yeretswe_urukundo_nk_ikimenyetso_cyo_kuzirikana_ko_yitangiye_kuyobora_urugamba_rwo_kubohora_igihugu-03b85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has advised youth to take advantage of the country\u2019s state of development and shape a brilliant future that differs from the dark history.<\/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-37817","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\/37817","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=37817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37817"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37817"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}