{"id":37906,"date":"2018-07-24T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/india-pm-narendra-pays-tribute-to-genocide\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:21:12","slug":"india-pm-narendra-pays-tribute-to-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/india-pm-narendra-pays-tribute-to-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"India PM Narendra pays tribute to genocide victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra visited the memorial on Tuesday before travelling to Bugesera District, Eastern Province where he donated 200 cows to families living in Rweru Model Village.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian leader toured different parts of the memorial to thoroughly understand the history of the genocide in Rwanda. He also laid a wreath on the mass graves in honouring over 250,000 victims laid to rest in the memorial.<\/p>\n<p>On his twitter handle, Narendra commended the path of peace that Rwandans embarked on after the genocide. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisited the Kigali Genocide Memorial. The path of peace and brotherhood embraced by Rwanda after the unfortunate genocide of 1994 is commendable,\u201d Narendra said.<\/p>\n<p>Starting his visit yesterday, Narendra held discussions with President Paul Kagame in Village Urugwiro and witnessed the signing of seven agreements between Rwanda and India.<\/p>\n<p>He also met Indian community in Rwanda where he hailed their contribution to Rwanda-India relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWonderful interaction with the Indian diaspora in Rwanda. In every part of the world, the Indian diaspora is distinguishing itself and making us proud of their accomplishments. Rwanda\u2019s Indian community is a very positive influence on the India-Rwanda friendship,\u201d Narendra said on twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Narendra visit is considered as historical visit as is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Rwanda. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26340 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/di2bk9qwwaexcoa-8130c.jpg\" alt=\"Narendra pays tribute to the victims of the genocide\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26339 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/di2bmxzw0aaib1d-bd86e.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister, Narendra toured different parts of Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26338 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/di0oebox4aa279p-e6e36.jpg\" alt=\"Yesterday, Narendra met Indian community in Rwanda\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of his two-day state visit to Rwanda, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre and paid tribute to victims of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi laid to rest there.<\/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-37906","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\/37906","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=37906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37906"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37906"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}