{"id":3347,"date":"2016-07-30T07:25:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T07:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2020-10-20T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T10:51:25","slug":"cvr-going-on-testimonies-gathering-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/cvr-going-on-testimonies-gathering-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"CVR going on testimonies gathering stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3348\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3348\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3348\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mgr-Jean-Louis-Nahimana-2-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"For Bishop Louis Nahimana, the testimonies collection phase constitutes the heart of the CVR work\" width=\"410\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mgr-Jean-Louis-Nahimana-2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mgr-Jean-Louis-Nahimana-2-600x400-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Bishop Louis Nahimana, the testimonies collection phase constitutes the heart of the CVR work<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The announcement was made this Thursday, 28 July, in Bujumbura by Bishop Jean Louis Nahimana, the Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR), in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Awaiting the establishment of provincial offices, we decided to deploy a group of CVR commissioners to the ground to gather testimonies from victims and witnesses,&#8221; he said. Nahimana added: \u201cA step that is the heart of the CVR. The truth will come from testimonies of people affected by various crises that have devastated the country&#8221;. For the success of the CVR, he asked Burundians to break the spirit of negative solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>He said that, the work will at first focus on Bujumbura and will be done behind closed doors. Bishop Nahimana also stated that a law to protect witnesses and victims was promulgated on 27 June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently being translated into Kirundi, the national language before its dissemination to the public. According to him, three protection sections will accompany this step: a section of a protection brigade, a section of support (i.e. psychological, medical etc.) and an administrative section.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the work of this commission, Bishop Nahimana recognizes that the work of journalists is of great importance.<\/p>\n<p>Note that for now, the team is complete. After the departure of Father D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Yamuremye, He was replaced by Laurent Kavakure, the former Foreign Affairs Minister.<br \/>\nRenovat Ndabashinze translated by Lorraine Josiane Manishatse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement was made this Thursday, 28 July, in Bujumbura by Bishop Jean Louis Nahimana, the Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR), in a press conference. &#8220;Awaiting the establishment of provincial offices, we decided to deploy a group of CVR commissioners to the ground to gather testimonies from victims and witnesses,&#8221; he said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1186,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}