{"id":39034,"date":"2019-03-25T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-tshisekedi-pays-tribute-to-genocide\/"},"modified":"2019-03-25T21:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T21:44:33","slug":"president-tshisekedi-pays-tribute-to-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-tshisekedi-pays-tribute-to-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tshisekedi pays tribute to genocide victims at Gisozi Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tshisekedi is in Rwanda since Sunday to attend Africa CEO summit.<\/p>\n<p>He was accompanied by Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Sports and Culture, Esperance<br \/>\nNyirasafari, the Minister of Environment, Vincent Biruta and the Chief Executive<br \/>\nSecretary of the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide, Dr Jean<br \/>\nDamasc\u00e8ne Bizimana.<\/p>\n<p>Tshisekedi toured different facilities at Gisozi memorial and received explanations of the<br \/>\nhistory of the 1994 Genocide Against Tutsi.<\/p>\n<p>He laid a wreath at the memorial and observed a moment of silence in honor of<br \/>\ngenocide victims.<\/p>\n<p>Tshisekedi comes to Rwanda for the first time since he took office as DRC president in<br \/>\nJanuary 2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28554 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/when_president_tshisekedi_arriived_at_gisozi_genocide_memorial_site.png\" alt=\"When President Tshisekedi arrived at Gisozi Genocide Memorial Site\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28556 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/president_tshisekedi_greeting_the_sports_and_culture_minister_esperance_nyirasafari.png\" alt=\"President holds hand with Sports and Culture Minister , Esperance Nyirasafari\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28555 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/laying_flowers.jpg\" alt=\"President Tshisekedi laying flowers at the burial place at Gisozi Memorial\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28557 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/tshisekedi_at_gisozi.jpg\" alt=\"Paying respect to victims of the genocide laid to rest at Gisozi Memorial\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi has today paid homage to 250,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide Against Tutsi laid at Gisozi memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","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\/39034","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39034"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39034"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}