{"id":730,"date":"2019-10-25T04:14:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T04:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/?p=730"},"modified":"2019-10-25T04:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T04:23:33","slug":"victoire-umuhoza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/victoire-umuhoza\/","title":{"rendered":"Please take a moment to Share the Story of Victoire Umuhoza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please take a moment to read the story of VICTOIRE UMUHOZA and submit your vote: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoire decided to leave her life and family in exile to help Rwandan people: she spoke about truth and reconciliation, and of those crimes and victims nobody dared to talk about. She was arrested and kept in prison for 8 years. Now that she is free and continues to work for the same purposes, she is now in the final selection for a Human Rights international prize – the prize will be given to the candidate who holds the most international support. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please to share her story and submit your vote for Victoire via this link: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/apdhe.org\/victoire-ingabire-umuhoza-2\/<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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*More about Victoire: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoire Ingabire was born in\nRwanda in 1968, is an economist and mother of 3 children. She has lead the\nopposition party to the dictatorship in her home country, the Unified\nDemocratic Forces (FDU-Inkingi) since 2006. Violence in the African Great Lakes\nregion prevented her return to Rwanda from the Netherlands and she has remained\nexiled since 1994 to 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her courage and concerns led her to create various organizations for the promotion of human and women’s rights. She was a founding member of various civil society initiatives in the Netherlands as an NGO CODAC (whose objective is to morally, legally and materially support exiled persons from the Great Lakes region and create spaces for coexistence and relationship through sport and culture); URAHO NGO (gathers Rwandan women living in the Netherlands and helps them integrate into their new environment, takes care of orphans and asylum procedures); PROJUSTITIA RWANDA (fight for justice for all victims of the Rwandan tragedy); HARAMBE (platform of associations of African women committed to promotion and development in the Netherlands). In addition, she is a member of the board of ZWALU (platform of women’s associations fighting for their emancipation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the actions that bear\ntheir mark, the conference in Amsterdam (2004) that brought together all\npolitical organizations and all representative structures of civil society in\nthe African Great Lakes region should be highlighted . Along the\nsame lines, in 2005 he promoted a series of meetings between Rwandan civil\nsociety organizations and opposition organizations to design a common front\nagainst Paul Kagame, the current Rwandan president accused of crimes against\nhumanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its inception, Ingabire\nis committed to the Inter-Rwandan Dialogue (DIR) that has been developing\nover ten editions, held in locations such as El Masnou, (Barcelona), Palma de\nMallorca, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Washignton (USA) or Kinshasa (DR Congo) He\nhas actively participated in the Barcelona edition, facilitated by\nAequitas-Center for Mediation and Peaceful Conflict Resolution, under the\nauspices of Adolfo P\u00e9rez-Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize. He promoted and\nparticipated in the women’s edition held in El Masnou (2008) as well as in the\none held in Mallorca (2009). Ingabire vindicates the role of women in the\npeace and reconciliation processes to heal the aftermath of the Rwandan\ngenocides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2010, Ingabire returned to\nRwanda to run for presidential elections. Upon arrival, he appealed for\nthe recognition of all the victims and asked the perpetrators of the massacres\nto report to the courts. The Kigali government accused her of treason and\ndenial of genocide and was imprisoned. After a trial without guarantees –\ncondemned by Human Rights Watch and the European Commission – she was sentenced\nto 15 years in prison. His case was seen in the African Court of Human\nRights, who in November 2017 acknowledged that Ingabire had not had a fair\ntrial in Rwanda and demanded that the Rwandan government release it and\nrepair the damage caused to its person within a period of 6 months from the\ndate of the trial. The Court ruled that Ingabire had not denied or minimized\nthe genocide and that his criticism of the government should have been allowed\nunder the freedom of expression that Rwandan justice observes. President\nPaul Kagame pardoned her in September 2018 but has not taken any reparation\nmeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the first months of\nimprisonment in Kigali, Ingabire wrote a book in which he recounts his return\nto Rwanda, the trial and his subsequent imprisonment as well as his thoughts\nand convictions. We reproduce below some quotes from the Spanish version of Rwanda. Between\nthe four walls of the 1930 (Ediciones Trabe, Oviedo 2016):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I decide to return to my\nbeloved homeland, not out of ambition, but out of conviction […] We must work\nalongside those who seek to end the cycles of violence that have always\naccompanied the struggle for power in Rwanda.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I come for peace and it\nis this peace that will guide my political action to eradicate injustice and to\nbreak all the chains that are imprisoning us.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We want a peaceful\nliberation, without a new bloodshed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWake up, give up fear and let\nus free peacefully. Together we will win! \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoire Ingabire, known as\nthe “Rwandan Mandela” is not allowed to incur the elections nor can\nany opposition party. The current president fulfills his fifth term, and\nmodified the constitution to perpetuate himself in power. We believe that\nIngabire deserves international public recognition and we are convinced that\nthe award would contribute to honoring their struggle, to persevere in their\ncause, to protect their integrity and that of their alliance. Making your\ncase visible would open up new possibilities for reconciliation and peace\nreconstruction of a new Rwanda and would be a relevant example for other open\npeace processes. It would also give hope to the Rwandan groups that remain\nin exile in Europe and America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His link with Spain was born\nwith the action of justice presented by associations before the National Court\nfor crimes against humanity that include victims such as Quim Vallmaj\u00f3, and\neight other cooperators and missionaries. The relationship is deepened\nwith the celebration in El Masnou and Mallorca of two editions of the\nInter-Rwandan Dialogue facilitated by Spanish entities. We believe that\nthe fight against impunity and the search for objective truth are fundamental\nto lay the foundations for reconciliation and the contribution of peace,\nobjectives for which Victoire Ingabire has committed politically but also\npersonally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please take a moment to read the story of VICTOIRE UMUHOZA and submit your vote:  Victoire decided to leave her life and family in exile to help Rwandan people: she spoke about truth and reconciliation, and of those crimes and victims nobody dared to talk about. She was arrested and kept in prison for 8 years. Now that she is … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item","category-sunray"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}