{"id":33113,"date":"2026-08-03T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rwandan-genocide-how-football-saved-my-life-bbc-sport-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:51:32","slug":"rwandan-genocide-how-football-saved-my-life-bbc-sport-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rwandan-genocide-how-football-saved-my-life-bbc-sport-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan genocide: &#8220;How football saved my life&#8221; &#8211; BBC Sport Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzMKcM9IStc?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Eric Murangwa Eugene, a Tutsi on the verge of being killed by Hutu extremists during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, recalls how his life was saved. Those who had come to kill him realised he played for one of the country\u2019s biggest clubs and so spared his life.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Eric Murangwa Eugene uses football as a tool to bring harmony in Rwanda in the hope of avoiding such conflict in the future.<\/p>\n<p>This video is part of Crossing Divides, a BBC season bringing people together in a fragmented world.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZzMKcM9IStc\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Murangwa Eugene, a Tutsi on the verge of being killed by Hutu extremists during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, recalls how his life was saved. Those who had come to kill him realised he played for one of the country\u2019s biggest clubs and so spared his life. Today, Eric Murangwa Eugene uses football as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33115,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113\/revisions\/33115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}