{"id":43216,"date":"2021-04-02T12:49:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T12:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uzabakiriho-releases-commemoration-song\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T12:51:31","slug":"uzabakiriho-releases-commemoration-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uzabakiriho-releases-commemoration-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzabakiriho releases commemoration song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uzabakiriho Placide is one of singers that have released such songs ahead of the 27th commemoration.  <\/p>\n<p>In his newly released song dubbed \u2018Twibuke twiyubaka\u2019 translated as \u2018remember and rebuild\u2019, Uzabakiriho reminds the general public to avoid using social media to spread genocide ideology.  <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe song features messages on the commemoration and paying tribute to victims of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, fighting genocide ideology massively spread via social media,\u201d he has told IGIHE.  <\/p>\n<p>Uzabakiriho has explained that social media should be channels to demystify propaganda spread by people trivializing, undermining genocide.   <\/p>\n<p>Uzabakiriho who also survived the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi said that he chose to produce commemoration songs so as to educate people on unity and reconciliation as well as preserving history.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI survived genocide at the age of 13.  I lost parents, relatives and the entire family.  I saw people dying and spent nights hiding in bushes. In fact, I experienced several difficulties.  That is why I decided to sing on such history Rwanda endured , promote unity and reconciliation as well as fighting genocide ideology,\u201d he noted.   <\/p>\n<p>The artiste who joined the music industry in 2019 has another commemoration song dubbed \u2018Muze Twigire ku mateka\u2019 translated as \u2018Let us learn from history\u2019.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38185 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/placide_uzabakiriho_ni_umwe_mu_bahanzi_baririmba_indirimbo_ziganjemo_izo_kwibuka.jpg\" alt=\"Uzabakiriho Placide is one of singers that have released commemoration songs.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1041\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xjDU9sweMPc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{In light with preparations of the 27th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, different artistes have been releasing songs featuring commemoration messages. }  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-43216","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\/43216","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43216"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43216"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}