{The United Nations says it has evidence that Burundi’s security forces gang-raped women while searching the homes of suspected opposition leaders.}<\/p>\n
Security forces separated the women and raped them, the UN said in a statement. It said it had documented 13 cases of sexual violence.<\/p>\n
Forces also kidnapped, tortured and killed dozens of young men, it said.
\nViolence has escalated in Burundi since President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would run for a third term.<\/p>\n
He survived a coup attempt in May, and secured a third term in disputed elections in July.<\/p>\n
The abuses took place immediately after rebel attacks in December against three military camps in the country’s capital, Bujumbura, the UN’s human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The UN believes the army is taking revenge for the attacks.<\/p>\n
Mr Hussein also called for an investigation into reports that nine mass graves were found in and around Bujumbura, warning about the “increasing ethnic dimension of the crisis”.<\/p>\n
Some witnesses say that violence from security forces was directed at the Tutsi minority.<\/p>\n
Burundi has been plagued by tension between Tutsis and Hutus since independence in 1962.<\/p>\n
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