{"id":10846,"date":"2018-11-23T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=10846"},"modified":"2018-11-24T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T09:23:36","slug":"former-chairman-of-electoral-commission-elected-president-of-truth-and-reconciliation-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/former-chairman-of-electoral-commission-elected-president-of-truth-and-reconciliation-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Former chairman of electoral commission elected President of Truth and Reconciliation Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Assembly has elected this 22 November, 13 new members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-CVR. Among them, seven are from Hutu ethnic group, five are from Tutsi ethnic group and the last one is from Twa ethnic group.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10847\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10847\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10847\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CVR-mebres.jpg\" alt=\"Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, newly elected chairman of CVR led the National Independent Electoral Commission from 2010 to 2015 \" width=\"423\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CVR-mebres.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CVR-mebres-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CVR-mebres-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CVR-mebres-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, newly elected chairman of CVR led the National Independent Electoral Commission from 2010 to 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The seven new members from Hutu ethnic group are Pierre-Claver Ndayicariye, former chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission who was elected to lead the commission, Aloys Batungwanayo, D\u00e9o Hakizimana, L\u00e9a Pascasie Nzigamasabo, Ramadhan Karenga, Elie Nahimana and Pascal Niyonkuru.<\/p>\n<p>Members from Tutsi ethnic group are Cl\u00e9ment-No\u00e9 Ninziza, L\u00e9once Ngabo, Alice Nijimbere, Denise Sindokotse and D\u00e9ogratias Ndikumana. The member from Twa ethnic group is called Goreth Bigirimana.<\/p>\n<p>Three members of the outgoing Truth and Reconciliation Commission have been reelected. They are Cl\u00e9ment No\u00e9 Ninziza who was and remains the deputy chairman of CVR, Pascal Niyonkuru and L\u00e9once Ngabo.<\/p>\n<p>The Truth and Reconciliation Commission-CVR, which was provided for by the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement of 2020, has the mission of establishing the truth about the inter-ethnic massacres committed in Burundi from 1961 to 2018. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/defenders-of-victims-of-crimes-in-burundi-disagree-on-cvrs-new-coverage-period\/\">On 25 October, the National Assembly adopted a bill extending its mission from the period dating back to Germany Colonization in February 1885 up until December 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Assembly has elected this 22 November, 13 new members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-CVR. Among them, seven are from Hutu ethnic group, five are from Tutsi ethnic group and the last one is from Twa ethnic group. The seven new members from Hutu ethnic group are Pierre-Claver Ndayicariye, former chairman of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[747,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10849,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions\/10849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}