{"id":47658,"date":"2023-03-07T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T19:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/marcel-gatsinzi-former-minister-of-defence-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:19:34","slug":"marcel-gatsinzi-former-minister-of-defence-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/marcel-gatsinzi-former-minister-of-defence-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcel Gatsinzi, former Minister of Defence passes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details about his death emerged in the evening of Tuesday 7th March 2023 but it is said that he breathed the last on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>A source has told IGIHE \u2018that Gatsinzi was not critically ill\u2019 but felt unhealthy and went to a hospital where he died shortly after arrival as doctors prepared to attend to him.  <\/p>\n<p>He has been living in Rwanda but traveled to Belgium for medical attention.  <\/p>\n<p>People who lived with him attest that he was a patriotic and honest man. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-46577 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gats.jpg\" alt=\"Marcel Gatsinzi, former Minister of Defence has succumbed to natural cause.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Gen (Rtd) Marcel Gatsinzi who once served as Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Defence, has died at a hospital in Belgium where he traveled for treatment.}  <\/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-47658","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\/47658","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=47658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47658"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47658"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}