{"id":264,"date":"2026-05-18T12:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/?p=264"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:55:21","slug":"survivors-testimony-at-memorial-event-leaves-attendees-emotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Survivor\u2019s Testimony at Memorial Event Leaves Attendees Emotional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A survivor identified as Nyirakariza has questioned why some people continue to deny the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi despite the atrocities being witnessed publicly by many people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made the remarks during a memorial event held on May 15, 2026, to honor former employees of IRST, now known as NIRDA, who were killed during the genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nyirakariza said he was only 17 years old during the genocide and spent weeks hiding in different places including forests, hospitals, and church compounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He recalled witnessing horrific scenes, including mothers and children being killed, prisoners massacred, and women subjected to sexual violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThese crimes happened openly. I don\u2019t understand how anyone can say the genocide never happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials at the event called on Rwandans to continue fighting genocide ideology and promoting unity and reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survivor identified as Nyirakariza has questioned why some people continue to deny the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi despite the atrocities being witnessed publicly by many people. He made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}