UN probe finds 'gross human rights abuses' in Burundi - Polidicks

[t]http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2016/7/30/e999b095c8094656a416b5c00f803ed0_18.jpg[/t] [QUOTE]The report said that there are worrying signs of a personality cult being built around the president.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Burundi's government is behind systematic human rights abuses, including executions and torture, a new report by UN investigators has said, adding that some instances of these [B]"gross human rights violations amount to crimes against humanity"[/B]. Responding to Tuesday's report, Burundi accused the United Nations of bias, saying its investigators were "politically motivated" and their conclusions based on anonymous and unverifiable sources. The three independent investigators were tasked by the UN Human Rights Council in January with investigating rights abuses in Burundi since it descended into violence in April 2015 over President Pierre Nkurunziza's controversial decision to run for a third term - a vote he won in July of the same year. The report by the UN Independent Investigation on Burundi (UNIIB) said that "gross human rights violations have and are taking place, committed primarily by state agents and those linked to them". The UN human rights office has verified 564 cases of executions between April 26, 2015, and August 30, 2016, the investigators, who made two trips to Burundi and conducted 227 interviews, said. They added that this was "clearly a conservative estimate". A list of suspects will be handed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and be available in the event of any prosecutions, the investigators said. The government denied all the allegations. The investigators said that they had received evidence of rape, disappearances, mass arrests as well as torture and murder, and that there were probably many thousands of victims. "UNIIB found that the large majority of victims have been identified as people who were opposed or perceived to be opposed to the third mandate of President Nkurunziza or of members of opposition parties," it said.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/probe-finds-gross-human-rights-abuses-burundi-160920193304827.html[/url]

Is anybody really suprised?

time to write up those angry letters and not do anything about it huh

If we don't do anything about Eritrea, I doubt we'll do anything about this.

If only there was some sort of global force that could go in and clean up a country where there are systematic and widespread human rights abuses against its citizens... If only there was some sort of organization that had military backing from constituent nations that could liberate oppressed individuals in a country... Oh, wait. Burundi doesn't have oil. Never mind. That organization doesn't exist.

[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;51088955]If only there was some sort of global force that could go in and clean up a country where there are systematic and widespread human rights abuses against its citizens... If only there was some sort of organization that had military backing from constituent nations that could liberate oppressed individuals in a country... Oh, wait. Burundi doesn't have oil. Never mind. That organization doesn't exist.[/QUOTE] Maybe in another world we can, as first world countries, play world police without causing thousands in civilian casualties. Last time France had sent the military to "liberate the oppressed in mali", local children were raped by our military/foreign legion, look up operation cerval. Even without boots on the ground fuckups can happen which cause more harm than good.

I've literally never heard of Burundi before. Is it that african equivalent of north korea, that's 100% blocked off from the outside world, and has no media coming in from the outside world, or am I thinking of another country?

Burundi is hardly a place I hear of in the news, and when I do, it's stuff like this. Lovely. My heart goes out to the victims of the Nkurunziza administration, and I hope the people are able to throw him and his out and establish a new government.

[QUOTE=AnonymaPizza;51089299]I've literally never heard of Burundi before. Is it that african equivalent of north korea, that's 100% blocked off from the outside world, and has no media coming in from the outside world, or am I thinking of another country?[/QUOTE] That'd be Eritrea. Burundi is a shithole but Eritrea is the most closed off country in the world iirc