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The International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi received testimonies from 667 witnesses in total [USIP | 2002]. It found that acts of genocide had been perpetrated against the Tutsi minority in Burundi in October 1993 and recommended prosecutions of those responsible for these crimes, as well as the 1972 genocide, once the situation in the country became more stable and secure. It also found that Hutus are heavily discriminated against in Burundi and recommended that the government implement anti-discrimination measures and institute reforms to the judiciary and security sector that would result in more ethnically balanced and independent bodies, as well as accountability for human rights violations that occurred in 1993 and earlier.
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Updated in October 2011
Updated in October 2011
Burundi
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- Created on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
- Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:37
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Burundi has a history of political unrest between its Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups that resulted in the 1972 genocide of Hutus by the Tutsi army and the 1993 genocide of Tutsis by Hutus, as well as revenge killings and other crimes. The conflict continued through 2006, with shifts of power between the two sides, and violence still flares up to this day.
In August 1995, the United Nations (UN) established an International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi, mandated to inquire into the 1993 assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye, the first elected president and Hutu leader of Burundi, as well as the massacres and violence that followed. (Read more about the commission.)
During the Arusha Peace Accords, the parties requested that the UN set up an international commission to investigate serious crimes committed in Burundi since 1962. The Security Council did not act on this request until April 2004, when it sent a team to assess the feasibility of such a mechanism. The team recommended the establishment of a truth commission and a special war crimes chamber within Burundi's judicial system. In 2011, the Burundian government announced that the truth commission would be set up in 2012. (Read more about the commission.)