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Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa: “Only dialogue will end the crisis in Burundi”
20.03.2017 - (Last modified: 21.03.2017)Burundi: pre-crisis violence must not be forgotten
03.03.2017 - (Last modified: 10.03.2017)Burundi: a “standardised crisis”?
24.01.2017 - (Last modified: 25.01.2017)Burundi’s withdrawal from the ICC: Collapse of a system or hidden opportunity?
03.12.2016 - (Last modified: 06.12.2016)ICC withdrawals: international justice needs our unbending support
01.11.2016 - (Last modified: 07.11.2016)TRIAL International representative asked to leave Burundi
06.10.2016 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)CAT Special Examination of Burundi
12.08.2016 - (Last modified: 27.09.2016)Burundi’s missed opportunity risks closing off dialogue
08.08.2016 - (Last modified: 27.09.2016)UN examination of the Burundi: civil society condemns a human rights crisis
26.07.2016 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)Tortured, harassed, and driven into exile to save his family
06.06.2016 - (Last modified: 01.02.2018)
One morning in 2006 as he was leaving his house, Alain (not his real name) found himself eye to eye with about twenty policemen who had come to arrest him. Immediately taken to the police station, he was – wrongly – accused of preparing a coup d’état.
Faced with his refusal to acknowledge the false allegations, the agents beat him. Alain was severely beaten and la...
Opposition member murdered in Burundi
06.06.2016 - (Last modified: 29.08.2019)
Yohann (real name withheld) was an active member of the National Liberation Forces (FNL), an opposition party. A prominent political personality in his community, he first came under pressure in the run-up to the 2010 elections: arrest and arbitrary detention, public threats, harassment, etc. Fearing for his life, Yohann fled to another region of Burundi.
After th...
Torn away from his family and deprived of a dignified funeral
06.06.2016 - (Last modified: 28.02.2019)
Jules (not his real name), married with four children, was a long-standing member of the National Liberation Front (FNL), an opposition party.
In 2010, a post-election crisis swept across the country, resulting in a deterioration of the safety of political opponents and a surge in extrajudicial executions.
That was when Jules began to be persecuted and threaten...