Burundi: Rampant Abuses Against Opposition

Expand A National Congress for Freedom (CNL) party building in Bubanza province, Burundi, June 8, 2019. The CNL has been able to organize some rallies and meetings since February, but members of the ruling party’s youth league, known as the Imbonerakure, have led a concerted campaign of arrests and abuses against its members. © 2019 Private (Nairobi) – Burundian authorities and ruling party youths have carried out dozens of beatings, arbitrary arrests, disappearances, and killings against real and suspected political opposition members. A concerted campaign against people perceived to be against…

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