{"id":39792,"date":"2019-08-05T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/fourteen-genocide-perpetrators-apologize-in-ngoma\/"},"modified":"2019-08-05T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:22:12","slug":"fourteen-genocide-perpetrators-apologize-in-ngoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/fourteen-genocide-perpetrators-apologize-in-ngoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen Genocide perpetrators apologize in Ngoma"},"content":{"rendered":"

The apology was sought on 1st August 2019 in Rukumberi sector, Ngoma district during a unity and reconciliation gathering. <\/p>\n

Unity and reconciliation is among priorities spotlighted by the Government of Rwanda following the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi where genocide perpetrators plead guilty and apologize in public. <\/p>\n

During the event held recently, 14 genocide convicts apologized in public. <\/p>\n

Emmanuel Habimana, 62, was handed life sentence. He was the head of Interahamwe in Sake of Ngoma district. <\/p>\n

Habimana felt ashamed and decided to seek pardon since 2000. <\/p>\n

\u201cI plead guilty of genocide crime. I felt ashamed for it, apologized and mobilized fellows to do so as a contribution to desisting denials of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Stephanie Muyoboke, a genocide survivor said she always grieved before knowing whereabouts killed relatives were dumped. <\/p>\n

She explained that her heart was smoothened since learnt about the circumstances of her parents\u2019 death and pardoned.<\/p>\n

Muyoboke requested convicts who apologized to make a step further mobilizing other inmates to tell the truth and reveal where genocide victims were dumped to be accorded decent burial. <\/p>\n

Johnson Mugaga, the head of unity and national identity and public awareness at the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) thanked participants of the event and inmates who made a step to revealing the truth. <\/p>\n

\u201cApologizing is about bravery rooted on humiliation while forgiving is bravery emanating from kindness,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Mugaga urged all churches, Rwanda Correctional Service among other stakeholders involved in the promotion of unity and reconciliation to sensitize inmates on seeking an apology and telling the truth as a part of foundations building Rwandan society. <\/p>\n

So far, 6000 genocide convicts have sent apology letters while 1800 of them were connected to offended survivors and forgiven. <\/p>\n

Findings in the RGB Citizen Report Card 2018 indicate that Rwandans\u2019 unity and reconciliation efforts are paying off at a rate of 92.5%.<\/p>\n

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Fourteen genocide convicts from Bugesera prison have apologized to families whose relatives they participated in killing during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Ngoma district, Eastern Province. <\/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-39792","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\/39792","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=39792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39792"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39792"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}