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*** 7-Sep-17 World View -- UN: Burundi's Hutu government attacks on Tutsis are crimes against humanity

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  • UN: Burundi's Hutu government attacks on Tutsis are crimes against humanity
  • Violence by the Imbonerakure, Nkurunziza's 'visionary' youth wing

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**** UN: Burundi's Hutu government attacks on Tutsis are crimes against humanity
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Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania. Over 400,000 people have fled to other countries to escape the Burundi government violence (MSF)

A final report issued on Monday by a special UN Commission of Inquiry
on Burundi has found massive human rights violations by the government
of president Pierre Nkurunziza, and ethnic Hutu, to the level of
crimes against humanity.

The report was based on interviews with more than 500 people among the
over 500,000 who had fled the country from the violence. The
violations included torture, rape, beatings, arbitrary jailings and
summary executions. The investigators were not permitted to enter the
country for the investigation.

A year ago, there was an initial United Nations report on Burundi,
documenting torture, sexual violence, arbitrary jailings, targeted
assassinations and summary executions. The targets of this massive
violence were mostly political opponents.

Nkurunziza's reaction to that report was to ban the United Nations
from Burundi, and to withdraw Burundi's membership from the
International Criminal Court (ICC). However, a withdrawal doesn't
take effect for a year, and the year is not up until October. For
that reason, the UN is strongly recommending that the ICC take up an
investigation immediately, before the withdrawal takes effect.
Reuters and United Nations
and Deutsche Welle

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**** Violence by the Imbonerakure, Nkurunziza's 'visionary' youth wing
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The violence began in June, 2015, after Nkurunziza announced that he
was going to run for a third term as president, in violation of the
country's constitution. There were peaceful protests, which
Nkurunziza countered by killing anyone who protested. Tens of
thousands fled to neighboring countries to escape the violence.

Today, there are almost 500,000 registered refugees in neighboring
countries, including 237,000 in Tanzania, 86,000 in Rwanda, 35,000 in
Uganda, and 37,000 in Democratic Republic of Congo. Three-quarters
of the refugees are Tutsis.

In the 1994 Rwanda genocide, which also took place in Burundi, the
ethnic Hutus slaughtered close to a million Tutsis in a three-month
period. Today's targets of Nkurunziza's violence are not necessarily
Tutsis, but are anyone who is politically opposed to Nkurunziza.
However, the vast majority of the targets are the Tutsis, since most
of Nkurunziza's political opposition comes from Tutsis.

The UN found that the crimes that violate international law were
committed by members of the National Intelligence Services, Burundi's
national police and the army.

A major participant in the violence are the Imbonerakure, the youth
wing of Nkurunziza's political party. The word Imbonerakure means
"visionaries," and for these kids, being "visionary" means raping
women and beating people with iron bars. Reports in 2015 indicated
that Nkurunziza's police would select targets in the opposition, and
would give kids in the Imbonerakure police uniforms, along with
instructions to go to the homes of the targets, kill the men with iron
bars, rape the women, and then kill the women and children.

Burundi is in a generational Awakening era, following the 1994
genocide. From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, we've seen
this time after time, in Syria, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Burundi,
Thailand, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Eritrea, and
other countries, where leaders in generational Awakening and
Unraveling eras use arbitrary jailings, violence and atrocities to
keep the opposition ethnic group out of power. Over a period of
years, the violence worsens until it turns into a full-scale
generational crisis civil war when the next generational crisis era
arrives.

It's worth recalling what happened during America's last generational
Awakening era in the 1960s-70s. There was plenty of street violence
by young people in Los Angeles, Detroit and Chicago, during the "long
hot summers." There was also targeted violence by left-wing and
anarchist groups such as the Weather Underground. There was similar
violence in Europe and other countries during the "Revolution of
1968." UN OHCHR (18-Apr) and "Stand Now and NPR (7-July-2015)

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, Hutu, Tutsi,
International Criminal Court, ICC, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda,
Imbonerakure

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