{"id":9125,"date":"2018-06-14T07:24:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T07:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9125"},"modified":"2018-06-14T07:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T07:24:22","slug":"victims-of-burundi-crises-suffer-painful-paststudy-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/victims-of-burundi-crises-suffer-painful-paststudy-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims of Burundi crises suffer painful past,study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a study conducted by the American Services Committee in partnership with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-CVR, victims of the tragic past testify that the latter affects their daily lives.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9123\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9123\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aloys-Batungwanayo.jpg\" alt=\"Aloys Batungwanayo: \u201cThe past affects people in different ways\u201d\" width=\"413\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aloys-Batungwanayo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aloys-Batungwanayo-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aloys-Batungwanayo-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aloys-Batungwanayo-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aloys Batungwanayo: \u201cThe past affects people in different ways\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Aloys Batungwanayo, a consultant who carried out the study, has said the past affects people in different ways.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are some who have suffered the crisis and adopted a non-violent strategy. This category of people teaches young people how they should avoid making the same mistake. There is another category of people who have failed to forgive those who wronged them.This group reflects a vindictive spirit,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Batungwanayo says other victims pretend to have forgotten but have not really forgiven the perpetrators. \u201cVictims\u2019 irritation is reflected in a given circumstance, for example when someone wants to marry a member of the family of the alleged perpetrators,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He also says some people testify that they are forced to remember what happened as they live together with the alleged criminals. \u201cWhen I go to the market and find that the seller is among the people who killed my husband, I feel the pain and cannot buy their products\u201d, this is, among others, a testimony of one of the victims questioned during the survey.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Jean Louis Nahimana, Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-CVR, says this study will help the commission establish what people need for the reconciliation process. He says that survey has showed that there is a need to tell the truth. \u201cAccording to testimonies in the research, not only there is a need for a detailed talk about what happened so as to heal victims\u2019 wounds, but also a thorough analysis by different experts,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00e9rence Mushano,the vice president of an association of victims of genocide called AC Genocide Cirimoso, praises the initiative to conduct such a study and recommends other objective studies for further clarifications on what happened in the country . \u201cIt would be better if there were a commission made up of foreign experts to collect different testimonies throughout the country,\u201d he says adding that foreigners\u2019 collaboration is needed to avoid subjectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted in six provinces and 12 communes of the country and targeted areas most affected by the crises that occurred from 1972 to 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study conducted by the American Services Committee in partnership with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-CVR, victims of the tragic past testify that the latter affects their daily lives. Aloys Batungwanayo, a consultant who carried out the study, has said the past affects people in different ways. \u201cThere are some who have suffered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1186,1369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9126,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions\/9126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}