Sports journalists to face off in memorial match

The Association of Sports Journalists in Rwanda (AJSPOR) has organised a football match between print and electronic media aimed at remembering their colleagues who were killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi scheduled for today at Ferwafa artificial turf.

Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Today Print media       vs     Broadcast  3:30pmThe Association of Sports Journalists in Rwanda (AJSPOR) has organised a football match between print and electronic media aimed at remembering their colleagues who were killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi scheduled for today at Ferwafa artificial turf.The match was supposed to be played on May 29 between Primus league archrivals SC Kiyovu and Rayon Sports but it was called off because of the inaugural memorial tournament organised by the local football federation on June 5-8.According to one of the event organisers and Voice of America (VOA) sports reporter, Jean-Claude Munyandinda, the one-off match is to "remember and honor our colleagues” that were killed during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.”"The atrocities of 1994 Genocide denied us a man like Viateur Kalinda, who was the country’s first renowned sports journalist, he inspired a lot of today’s sports journalists in the country.”