{"id":235,"date":"2026-05-11T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/?p=235"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:55:37","slug":"ferwafa-and-kiyovu-sports-commemorate-victims-of-the-1994-genocide-against-the-tutsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"FERWAFA and Kiyovu Sports Commemorate Victims of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FERWAFA joined Kiyovu Sports on Monday in a commemoration event honoring former players, supporters, and Rwandans killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event brought together football players, coaches, sports leaders, and club members, who were given lessons about the history leading to the genocide before laying flowers at a memorial site where more than 250,000 victims are buried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during the ceremony, Shema Ngoga Fabrice stressed the importance of unity and collective responsibility in preventing genocide from ever happening again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe stand together with Kiyovu Sports and all Rwandans in remembering those who were killed. We firmly believe genocide should never happen again, and it is everyone\u2019s responsibility to ensure that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ngoga revealed that his own uncle, who once served as a leader at Kiyovu Sports, was among those killed during the genocide. He also said his grandfather was believed to be one of the club\u2019s founders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FERWAFA further announced plans to promote genocide history education within sports institutions and work with relevant authorities to establish a memorial for people connected to sports who were killed in 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FERWAFA joined Kiyovu Sports on Monday in a commemoration event honoring former players, supporters, and Rwandans killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The event brought together football players, coaches, sports leaders, and club members, who were given lessons about the history leading to the genocide before laying flowers at a memorial site where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}