{"id":39134,"date":"2019-04-09T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/belgium-to-pass-law-against-denial-of-the-1994\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T17:52:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:52:21","slug":"belgium-to-pass-law-against-denial-of-the-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/belgium-to-pass-law-against-denial-of-the-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium to pass law against denial of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ceremony took place in the former Camp Kigali where the 10 Belgian soldiers who guarded the then Prime Minister Agathe Uwiringiyimana were killed. It was organized by the Kingdom of Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was attended by the Belgian Prime Minister, Right Honourable Charles Michel, who was accompanied by a large delegation of around 130 persons from Belgium (including family members of the 10 Belgian peacekeepers who were killed in Rwanda) and the Right Honourable Prime Minister, Dr. Ngirente Edouard. <\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony held yesterday, Michel said that by the end of April 2019 Belgium will have voted for passing a law against denial of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.<br \/>\nMichel said that there was evidence that genocide was being prepared at the time through his country and the international community never acted against it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we pay homage to our soldiers, we reassure that it won\u2019t happen again. We want to show that the memory of our heroic women and men is kept alive,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDenial and trivialization of crimes against humanity in Rwanda must desist. I would like to inform that the Belgium parliament will pass a law against the denial of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi before the end of this month,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s Premier Dr. Edouard Ngirente said that Rwandans will always remember the bravery of Belgium soldiers who sacrificed their lives standing against the evil and hailed Belgium contribution to Rwanda in the resilience process. He noted that the relations between both countries are the right honor these soldiers deserve. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will always be the memory to honor Belgium soldiers killed during the genocide. However, the great honor we should respect is good relationships between both countries\u2019 citizens,\u201d he highlighted. <\/p>\n<p>Belgium courts in 2007 handed 20 years sentence to Major Bernard Ntuyahaga, senior officer of the former government was in 2007 for being behind killings of Belgium soldiers.<br \/>\nBelgium also remembered 12 citizens who were killed in Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28787 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_w_intebe_w_u_bubiligi_yavuze_ko_igihugu_cye_kigiye_gushyiraho_itegeko_rihana_abahakana_jenoside_yakorewe_abatutsi_1_-d52db.jpg\" alt=\"The Belgian Prime Minister, Right Honourable Charles Michel, delivering his remarks in a ceremony where ten Belgian peacekeepers massacred in Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, where honored\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium has paid tribute to the ten Belgian peacekeepers massacred in Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/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-39134","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\/39134","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=39134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39134"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39134"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}