{"id":39133,"date":"2019-04-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/first-lady-jeannette-kagame-launches-memorial\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:38:37","slug":"first-lady-jeannette-kagame-launches-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/first-lady-jeannette-kagame-launches-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lady Jeannette Kagame launches Memorial Garden at Nyanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ceremony which took place at Nyanza Genocide Memorial yesterday was attended by government officials, representatives of umbrella organizations of genocide survivors, representatives of international organizations and envoys to Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>The garden is one of parts making Nyanza memorial where over 11,000 genocide victims are laid to rest.  <\/p>\n<p>Nyanza is particularly known as the place where thousands of Tutsis were killed after they were abandoned by UN peacekeepers.<\/p>\n<p>They had sought refuge at the former ETO-Kicukiro, (currently IPRC-Kigali), which was protected by UNAMIR peacekeepers, until the Belgian contingent decided to leave the country, leaving them in hands of Interahamwe militia.<\/p>\n<p>Jeannette Kagame said the memorial was built to demonstrate a place where tragedies took place that \u201cit is an unforgettable symbol reminding us that life went on.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>She laid a foundation stone to the garden in 2000 six years after the genocide was stopped.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen we laid the foundation stone at this garden,  it was few years after stopping the genocide which took lives of our beloved ones.  It was too earlier that people didn\u2019t think that life would be possible,\u201d she noted. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs years passed, the hope for life improved and the country progressed. Then we thought that the garden should be part of the memory and hope for life,\u201d added Jeannette Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>The memorial will portray truth on genocide, share testimonies of survivors and resilience with the aim of eliminating genocide ideology.  It also reminds us of the task to preserve history, remembrance and promoting humanity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a place like this in a garden helping us to come together and keep the memory of those who departed,\u201d said the First Lady. were killed for innate personality. <\/p>\n<p>The architect Bruce Clarke, conceived the design of the garden after engaging with genocide survivors on creating other forms of keeping the memory and after visiting genocide memorials and historic sites. <\/p>\n<p>He closely worked with IBUKA, umbrella of genocide survivors during the project.<br \/>\nBruce Clarke said that the garden was sophisticatedly built and depicts hard times Tutsi passed through.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach symbol in this garden represents sorrow, loss of hope and rebuilding of hope. It is not an achievement of one person,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The president of IBUKA, Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu said that those visiting the garden will find the right place to reflect on what happened during the genocide.  \u201cWe will be in conversations with ours in comfortable place having symbols of life. It will be a moment for everyone to understand that life exists and building hope for the future,\u201d he observed. <\/p>\n<p>The memorial garden is made of different sections including stones depicting victims killed during the genocide, how environment took part in rescuing hunted Tutsi, open holes representing where some genocide victims were thrown and rivers flowing through marshlands and the section of forest to remember among others. <\/p>\n<p>The memorial garden built on around three hectares is expected to be completed within a year at Rwf 700 million. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28780 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/her_excellency_first_lady_mrs_jeannette_kagame_delivering_remarks_at_the_official_inauguration_of_the_garden_of_memory-f0334.jpg\" alt=\"Jeannette Kagame said the memorial was built to demonstrate a place where tragedies took place that &#039;it is an unforgettable symbol reminding us that life went on\u2019\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28781 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/her_excellency_first_lady_mrs_jeannette_kagame_planting_a_tree_during_the_official_inauguration_of_the_garden_of_memory-788e8.jpg\" alt=\"First Lady, Jeannette Kagame has launched the first phase of a memorial garden at Nyanza Genocide Memorial in Kicukiro District\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28786 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mr_bruce_clark_one_of_the_minds_that_conceived_the_garden_giving_his_remarks_at_the_official_inauguration_of_the_garden_of_memory-f9b9d.jpg\" alt=\"The architect Bruce Clarke, conceived the design of the garden after engaging with genocide survivors on creating other forms of keeping the memory of the Past\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28783 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/photo-33-d5f02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28785 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/placing_stones_ceremony_during_the_official_inauguration_of_the_garden_of_memory_2_-ed244.jpg\" alt=\"The memorial garden is made of different sections including stones depicting victims killed during the genocide\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady, Jeannette Kagame has launched the first phase of a memorial garden at Nyanza Genocide Memorial in Kicukiro District. <\/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":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39133","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\/39133","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=39133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39133"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39133"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}