Human Rights Watch Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Burundi

Summary

During the reporting period, many trends documented since the beginning of Burundi’s human rights crisis in April 2015 persisted. In late April 2015, public demonstrations broke out in response to the late president Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to seek a controversial third electoral term. The Burundian police used excessive force and shot demonstrators indiscriminately….