{"id":4402,"date":"2016-11-29T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T11:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2016-11-29T12:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:24:41","slug":"rumonge-crosses-allegedly-drawn-on-homes-of-political-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/rumonge-crosses-allegedly-drawn-on-homes-of-political-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumonge : Crosses allegedly drawn on homes of political opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4403\" style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4403\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Croix-noir.jpg\" alt=\"A cross drawn overnight on a home of an alleged political opponent in the municipality of Rumonge\" width=\"366\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Croix-noir.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Croix-noir-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Croix-noir-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Croix-noir-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cross drawn overnight on a home of an alleged political opponent in the municipality of Rumonge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over the last week, residents of Mugomere and Birimba, two districts in the municipality of Rumonge (southern province), found black crosses drawn on their walls and fences overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Sources on the spot claim that the crosses were drawn by Imbonerakure [youth affiliated to the ruling CNDD-FDD party] on homes of people who are not members of that party.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9lestin Nitanga, Rumonge municipal authority, refutes the accusation saying that the crosses were drawn not only on homes of political opponents but also on homes of members of the ruling party. \u201cThe police are carrying out investigations to determine the culprits\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Nitanga goes on to say that Mugomere and Birimba are inhabited in majority by people who are not members of the ruling party. The recent event comes to destabilize the area where people of different political backgrounds were living in harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Residents say they don\u2019t know why the crosses were drawn on their homes and ask the police to help find out the motives of the culprits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last week, residents of Mugomere and Birimba, two districts in the municipality of Rumonge (southern province), found black crosses drawn on their walls and fences overnight. Sources on the spot claim that the crosses were drawn by Imbonerakure [youth affiliated to the ruling CNDD-FDD party] on homes of people who are not members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[154,707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402"}],"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=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4404,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions\/4404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}