{"id":4215,"date":"2016-11-03T15:16:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2016-11-03T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:16:54","slug":"former-burundi-kings-daughter-not-shocked-by-geneva-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/former-burundi-kings-daughter-not-shocked-by-geneva-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Burundi King\u2019s daughter not shocked by Geneva court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4216\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4216\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Former-Burundi-King-Mwambutsa-IV-Bangiricenge-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Former Burundi King Mwambutsa IV Bangiricenge\" width=\"470\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Former-Burundi-King-Mwambutsa-IV-Bangiricenge-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Former-Burundi-King-Mwambutsa-IV-Bangiricenge.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Burundi King Mwambutsa IV Bangiricenge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Geneva justice court has ruled that the remains of Mwambutsa IV, former Burundi king, will remain in Switzerland, local media has reported this 1st November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict comes to end a feud between members of the monarch\u2019s family who disagreed on whether the remains of the king would be kept in Switzerland or brought back home. The last living king\u2019s daughter, Princess Paula Rosa Iribagiza, who sought the repatriation of her father\u2019s remains said she accepted the court\u2019s decision. \u201cIt\u2019s not a big deal. After all, I would never see my father again\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>King Mwambutsa IV Bangiricenge died and was buried in Geneva, Switzerland in 1977 while in exile. In 2012, Burundi government asked its Suiss counterpart to allow for the repatriation of the king, a request that was supported by the king\u2019s daughter. According to the spokesperson of the Burundian Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, B\u00e9atrice Nibogora, \u201cthe government wanted the king to be buried with dignity like all other kings before him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The motion was met by a categorical refusal by Esther Kamatari, the king\u2019s niece who cited the king\u2019s testament that expressed his wish to be buried in Switzerland and never be taken back to his country.<\/p>\n<p>She brought the case to Geneva justice court in 2012 after Iribagiza\u2019s half-sister, Collette Berete Uwimana in Geneva, exhumed the king to bring him back to Burundi. The present court ruling seems to have ended the court battle though an appeal to Switzerland highest court is still possible according to local media. Nibogora says the decision whether to make an appeal will depend on the advice of the government\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva justice court has ruled that the remains of Mwambutsa IV, former Burundi king, will remain in Switzerland, local media has reported this 1st November 2016. The verdict comes to end a feud between members of the monarch\u2019s family who disagreed on whether the remains of the king would be kept in Switzerland or brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[86,861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4217,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}