Burundian Human Rights League Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/burundian-human-rights-league/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Burundian Human Rights League Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/burundian-human-rights-league/ 32 32 Human rights groups call for military force to stop civil war in Burundi https://jjcornish.com/2016/11/human-rights-groups-call-military-force-stop-civil-war-burundi/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/11/human-rights-groups-call-military-force-stop-civil-war-burundi/ Human rights groups are calling on Africa, Europe and the United Nations to send a military force to prevent a civil war and possible genocide in Burundi. They say there’s been a new intensification of repression and crimes against opponents of President Pierre Nkurunziza. ends intro The International Federation For Human Rights and the Burundian […]

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They say there’s been a new intensification of repression and crimes against opponents of President Pierre Nkurunziza.

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The International Federation For Human Rights and the Burundian Human Rights League have issued a 200-page report listing what they call dramatic actions by the Burundian government.

These include the expulsion of African Union and United Nations human rights experts from Burundi;

The denunciation by the Burundian government of a UN human rights report critical of actions in Bujumbura;

Burundi’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court; and

The suspension of five human rights organizations in Burundi.

The alarm bells started ringing, say the watchdogs, when President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to take an unconstitutional third term at the helm.

 

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