Week 3 Report on Burundi

Civil society organizations have repeatedly raised concerns with the continued enforced disappearances and discovery of mass graves since May 2015. In December 2015, civil society protested the disappearance of 24 individuals and reports of their mass burial in Bugarama, in the District of Muramvya (Centre of Burundi), some 40 km from Bujumbura. Despite repeated calls to end these enforced disappearances, extra judicial killings and locate the mass graves, the government of Burundi remains uncooperative. The AU fact finding mission deployed in early December 2015 could not undertake any verification exercise as there was no cooperation from the Public General Prosecutor and the government of Burundi…

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