{"id":7048,"date":"2013-04-10T02:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T02:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/genocide-memorial-tournament-to-be-revived\/"},"modified":"2013-04-10T02:05:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T02:05:51","slug":"genocide-memorial-tournament-to-be-revived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/genocide-memorial-tournament-to-be-revived\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide Memorial Tournament to be Revived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Plans are underway to revive a soccer tournament in memory of footballers that were killed in the 1994 genocide.}}<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is scheduled to be held between June and July 2013, though a fixed date hasnt been agreed upon.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwanda football federation (Ferwafa) Secretary General Michael Gasingwa was quoted by a local daily saying, \u201cWe have agreed with the Ministry Sports  and the National Olympic Committee to join Mukura FC in organising the (Genocide memorial) tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Genocide memorial tournament was first organised Four Years ago by  Mukura Victory Sport.<\/p>\n<p>However, lack of funds frustrated continuity of the tournament and has stalled for the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>Gasingwa said Ferwafa plans to support Mukura again in organising the memorial tournament, planned in July.<\/p>\n<p>During the genocide in 1994, several members of the Rwandan football fraternity were killed. So far 70 victims have been identified. <\/p>\n<p>Victims were mostly from Mukura, SC Kiyovu, Rayon Sports, Panth\u00e8re Noire FC, Etincelles FC, Gishamvu FC, Mukungwa FC, Terminus FC and Kilo Volte FC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2409 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/erte.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>2005. {Mukura and Rayon Sport players in a group photo after the final of the Genocide memorial tournament. The New Times Photo}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Plans are underway to revive a soccer tournament in memory of footballers that were killed in the 1994 genocide.}} The tournament is scheduled to be held between June and July 2013, though a fixed date hasnt been agreed upon. The Rwanda football federation (Ferwafa) Secretary General Michael Gasingwa was quoted by a local daily saying, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","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\/7048","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}