{"id":9198,"date":"2016-05-23T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=9198"},"modified":"2016-05-23T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:12:58","slug":"burundi-tragic-death-of-a-cousin-of-our-confrere-jean-de-dieu-m-afr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/23\/burundi-tragic-death-of-a-cousin-of-our-confrere-jean-de-dieu-m-afr\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: tragic death of a cousin of our confrere Jean de Dieu Bukuru, M.Afr"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BenoitIt is with deep sorrow that I received the sad news of the murder of my cousin Benoit Nizigiyimana<\/strong>. We had a very close bond since he is the one who took care of my twin brother and myself during our last 3 years of secondary school. We lived in his house and he contributed to our school fees and our other needs. He, and his wife Genevieve, cared for us as their own children.<\/span><\/p>\n

His death occurred after midnight on the 21st<\/sup> May. As he was coming back home with his wife from his bar which is situated near his residence, a man came from the opposite direction as they were approaching the gate. This man greeted them asking them if they were fine (ni sawa?). They replied to him saying that they were fine. He passed them and continued his way. But few metres away, he turned back and shot my cousin in the chest from the back. My cousin immediately collapsed and died. His wife, bewildered with what had just happened shouted at the man crying saying: “this is really what you have done to me, making me a widow?” The assassin opened a grenade which he threw at my cousin’s wife. Fortunately, it exploded some distance away from her but injuring her all badly. The people who heard the gunshot and the explosion of the grenade came to see what had happened. They found my cousin already dead. They took his wife to the hospital and his body to the mortuary.<\/span>
\n My cousin was working with the Red Cross as a National Coordinator. He leaves behind a widow and five children still at the secondary and primary school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole family is in deep sorrow. I beg for your prayers.\u00a0Jean de Dieu Bukuru, M.Afr<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Jean de Dieu, My heartfelt condolences on the tragic death of your cousin Benoit Nizigiyimana. Kindly find here the expression of my sympathy and the assurance of my prayers in this devastating moment your family is undergoing. We pray for the repose of the soul of Benoit and ask for graces of healing and consolation for Genevieve and the Children. United in Prayer, Stanley Lubungo, M.Afr SAP Provincial<\/span><\/p>\n

From\u00a0: SOS-TORTURE \/ BURUNDI<\/a><\/p>\n

Un cadre de la Croix Rouge du Burundi (CRB) du nom de Beno\u00eet Nizigiyimana a \u00e9t\u00e9 abattu le 20 mai 2016 devant son domicile au quartier Mirango II, zone Kamenge (nord de Bujumbura). Les auteurs de l\u2019assassinat ont aussi bless\u00e9 son \u00e9pouse. La victime dirigeait le D\u00e9partement Sant\u00e9 Communautaire \u00e0 la Croix Rouge Burundi. Des t\u00e9moins indiquent qu\u2019il poss\u00e9dait aussi un bistrot tr\u00e8s fr\u00e9quent\u00e9 \u00e0 Mirango et que le couple a \u00e9t\u00e9 attaqu\u00e9 alors qu\u2019ils rentraient apr\u00e8s la fermeture de leur bar.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is with deep sorrow that I received the sad news of the murder of my cousin Benoit Nizigiyimana. We had a very close bond since he is the one who took care of my twin brother and myself during our last 3 years of secondary school. We lived in his house and he contributed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[186,1323],"class_list":["post-9198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-benoit-nizigiyimana","tag-sos-torture-burundi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}