Political Crisis: UN Outlines 8 Reasons Why 2020 Burundi Vote Is 'Risky' - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 5, 2019
TheUnited Nations, UN has warned that Burundi’s elections in 2020 will beproblematic because of an unresolved political crisis and a president who isincreasingly portrayed as a “divine” ruler.
Thereport by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Burundi said there was a climate offear and intimidation against anyone who did not show support for the rulingCNDD-FDD party.
Police,other security forces and the ruling party’s youth league, the Imbo-nera-kurehad continued to commit human rights violations, including killings,disappearances, torture and gang rape of people allegedly opposed to PresidentPierre Nkurun-ziza.
Usinga U.N. risk analysis for potential atrocity crimes, the U.N. investigators saidall eight common risk factors were present in Burundi.
TheU.N. panel’s chairman, Doudou Diene said in a statement that there is no betterearly warning than this.