{A least 348 people have died in extrajudicial killings in Burundi over the past one year, a UN report says.}<\/p>\n
According to the report issued by the UN rights chief, Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein, the killings were largely blamed on police, intelligence agents, anti-riot officers and militias linked to the ruling party.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe report further details the tragic and comprehensive deterioration in the human rights of the people of Burundi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
{{“The report further details the tragic and comprehensive deterioration in the human rights of the people of Burundi.”
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\nAside from violence blamed on the security services, the UN rights office also documented over the same period 134 murders committed by armed men.<\/p>\n
The international body said the armed men are likely those opposed to president Pierre Nkurunziza\u2019s government.<\/p>\n
Over the 12-month reporting period, the UN rights office also recorded 651 incidents of torture.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the incidents were primarily committed between April and July 2015 and from December to April 2016, when the repression of opposition supporters was mostly intense.<\/p>\n
The African Union plans to send some 200 military and human rights observers to Burundi to help tame the broiling crisis in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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