A fresh human rights commission was established late on Monday in Burundi by the country’s parliament after its earlier mind fled into exile. Its mandate was to “fight” the UN’s right minister.
International organizations have long accused the Burundian state of repressing the media, social opposition, and civil society.
Although the nation’s personal National Independent Human Rights Commission was viewed as being close to the government, a report in January outlining hundreds of violations.
Sixte Vigny Nimuraba, the country’s leader, fled into exile after being criticized by the head of the National Assembly and therefore charged with corruption.
Following a heated conversation on Sunday, the National Assembly approved a brand-new commission with seven associates, including a priest, Martin Blaise Nyaboho, who has previously vehemently opposed the criticism.
Gelase Daniel Ndabirabe, the president of the National Assembly, criticized Fortune Gaetan Zongo, the UN special rapporteur on individual freedom in Burundi.
Zongo’s statement from August went into great detail about” the widespread violence enjoyed by perpetrators of human rights violations… the deteriorating security condition… and the rise in the number of instances of enforced disappearance and arbitrary imprisonment.”
The National Assembly’s leader stated in a text to the new federal privileges committee that “your goal will be to fight and take down Fortune Gaetan Zongo… and put an end to these cruel accusations of human rights violations” in a social media information.
After his house was searched by the National Intelligence Service and officers, Nimuraba, the preceding payment head, fled to Europe next month, according to a political origin and local media.
Another exiled rights advocate, Pacifique Nininahazwe, claimed that it was against Burundian law for parliament to appoint someone to change the rights commissioners halfway through their mission.
He claimed that the new directors had much experience in human right job and were all close to the ruling party. He claimed that they are the “worst group always put in place.”
Two Burundian Truth and Reconciliation Commission members, who were established to investigate past cases of ethnic violence, even emigrated this year. According to internal sources and the local press, Palastino Clement Noe Ninziza and Aloys Batungwanayo fled the nation in February after being accused of” sharing intelligence with the enemy.”
