{"id":148,"date":"2014-04-07T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2023-08-17T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:04:50","slug":"rwanda-commemorates-20th-anniversary-of-the-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/rwanda-commemorates-20th-anniversary-of-the-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Commemorates 20th Anniversary of the Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-459\" title=\"Memorial genocide site - Nyamata\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/memorial-genocide-site-nyamata.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial genocide site - Nyamata\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/memorial-genocide-site-nyamata.jpg 518w, https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/memorial-genocide-site-nyamata-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/> <em><strong>Memorial genocide site &#8211; Nyamata<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, Monday 7th of April, starts a week of official mourning by the Rwandan peoples to mark the 20th anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/3-days-gorillas-rwanda.html\">Rwanda<\/a> Genocide.<\/p>\n<p>The anniversary proceedings are to be presided over by President <strong>Paul Kagame<\/strong>, accompanied by a host of international leaders, including regional Presidents Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), and Uhuru Kenyatta(Kenya), former international leaders including Tony Blair (United Kingdom), Thabo Mbeki (South Africa) and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.<\/p>\n<p>They will start off with a wreath-laying ceremony at the National Genocide Memorial and thereafter proceed to the lighting of a flame at the Ahahoro Stadium in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volcanoegorillasrwanda.com\/tour\/1-day-kigali-city-tour\/\">Capital Kigali<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President Paul Kagame is to light a torch which will burn for 100 days, which signifies is the length of time the genocide lasted.<\/p>\n<p>The horrific 1994 Rwanda genocide left at least 800,000 people slain, majority of them Tutsi and few moderate Hutu, at the hands of Hutu extremists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial genocide site &#8211; Nyamata Today, Monday 7th of April, starts a week of official mourning by the Rwandan peoples to mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide. The anniversary proceedings are to be presided over by President Paul&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventure-travellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}