{"id":47979,"date":"2023-05-01T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T12:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-to-digitize-genocide-memorials\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:52:09","slug":"rwanda-to-digitize-genocide-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-to-digitize-genocide-memorials\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda to digitize Genocide memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jean Damascene Bizimana, the Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement, made the remarks during an event Friday to unveil a 10-year funding package for the project in the Rwandan capital of Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Digitization will preserve the history and provide visitors with electronic access to all information through videos and audio. It will enable people to visit these memorials without the need for a guide,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The move will start with three memorial sites, including Nyange and Murambi in western Rwanda, and Ntarama in the east, but with a target of covering other memorials across the country, according to Dr. Bizimana.<\/p>\n<p>Bizimana said necessary data, including survivors&#8217; testimonies, pictures, information about trials, and other relevant information, has been collected to ensure the successful implementation of the project.<\/p>\n<p>The latest official figures show that there are more than 170 genocide memorial sites in the country. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47571 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton115301-9139d-2.jpg\" alt=\"Murambi is among the first three Genocide memorials to be digitized.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda is set to digitize selected Genocide memorial sites in the country as part of efforts to preserve the history of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and ease visitors&#8217; access to memorials.}<\/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-47979","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\/47979","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=47979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47979"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47979"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}