{"id":43374,"date":"2021-04-24T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bk-group-plc-pays-tribute-to-employees-killed-during-genocide\/"},"modified":"2021-04-26T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T15:32:49","slug":"bk-group-plc-pays-tribute-to-employees-killed-during-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bk-group-plc-pays-tribute-to-employees-killed-during-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"BK Group Plc pays tribute to employees killed during Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ceremony took place yesterday at Bank of Kigali\u2019s headquarters observing COVID-19 preventive measures. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the event, the CEO of Bank of Kigali, Dr. Diane Karusisi said that remembering genocide victims comforts survivors highlighting that it also teaches young generation born after the Genocide.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommemorating is much needed because we have to restore the dignity to Genocide victims. It is also an occasion to comfort survivors reminding them that they are not alone despite the loss of relatives that we can work together to build the nation.  The youth represent the majority of Rwandans.  It is hard to advance forward when you don\u2019t know where you are coming from. We have to talk about our country\u2019s history so that they youth can learn from it,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Karusisi highlighted that Bank of Kigali shall never abandon genocide survivors and reiterated the bank\u2019s commitment to continue walking with them along the resilience journey.  <\/p>\n<p>Egide Nkuranga, the President of IBUKA, organization umbrella of genocide survivors stressed that commemorating genocide victims is a way to restore their dignity and an occasion to reflect on experienced tragic history to prevent reoccurrence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenocide survivors should continue to commemorate victims because it gives them strength to move on, deal with sorrow and trauma,\u201d he noted.  <\/p>\n<p>Nkuranga also thanked Bank of Kigali for relentlessly supporting IBUKA in different projects to improve livelihoods and restore hope among survivors of Genocide against Tutsi.  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of families with employees killed during Genocide, Ambroise Rugamba commended the bank for organizing such event which soothes their hearts.   <\/p>\n<p>He urged survivors&#8217; families to stand united as families that share common history.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38331 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bk_karurisi_lighting_flame_of_remembrance.jpg\" alt=\"The CEO of BK, Dr. Diane Karusisi with other participants of the event lighting the flame of remembrance.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38332 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bk_kwibuka.jpg\" alt=\"The commemoration event took place at BK headquarters.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38333 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bk_remembered_staff.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{BK Group Plc has commemorated 15 former employees killed during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi. }  <\/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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/43374","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=43374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43374"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43374"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}