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World trending news 201512/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Killings, Torture, and Other Abuses by Security Forces and Ruling Party Youths Several of the country’s most prominent human rights groups remain either suspended or outlawed since 2015. Independent national and international human rights organizations are still unable to operate in Burundi. These include arbitrary arrests of political opponents or those perceived as such, acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, sexual and gender-based violence, and undue restrictions to the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association. However, since his election, all of the structural human rights issues documented under his predecessor remain in place. After a flawed electoral process and the sudden death of Nkurunziza, president Évariste Ndayishimiye took office in June 2020 and pledged to implement reforms and end impunity. There has been almost total impunity for these crimes. Those who remained did so at great risk.ĭespite accepting recommendations during its previous Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2018 related to ensuring security forces' respect for human rights and freedom of media and civil society, since then and during Nkurunziza’s third and final term, independent civil society and media continued to be relentlessly attacked. By mid-2015 almost all Burundi’s opposition party leaders, independent journalists, and civil society activists had fled the country after receiving repeated threats. After a failed coup by a group of military officers in May 2015, the Burundian government intensified its repression against suspected opponents and suspended most of the country’s independent radio stations. The Burundian police used excessive force and shot demonstrators indiscriminately. In late April 2015, public demonstrations broke out in response to the late president Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to seek a controversial third electoral term. During the reporting period, many trends documented since the beginning of Burundi’s human rights crisis in April 2015 persisted.
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