![]() The immediate crisis Burundian riot police near burning barricades. Here's a look at how things got so bad - and the desperate attempts by the international community to make sure they don't get any worse. Still, what's happening there is deadly serious. Adama Dieng, the UN's special adviser on the prevention of genocide, said that the government's rhetoric is "very similar to language used before and during the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda."Įxperts following the conflict, though, are quick to point out that Burundi's situation is very different from Rwanda's, and that while the risk of more violence is real, it does not currently appear to be ethnic in nature or yet prone to what would qualify as genocide. Since April, more than 240 people have been killed according to a letter written by concerned NGOs, "bodies dumped on the streets on an almost nightly basis."Īnd things could get much, much worse. President Biden same day decried move as “tragic violation” of human rights.Burundi, a small country in Africa's Great Lakes region, is in the midst of some seriously dangerous violence. Museveni 29 May enacted repressive anti-LGTB+ law, sparking widespread condemnation. House committee 23 May presented recommendations on iron sheets corruption scandal, calling for three of 15 top officials suspected of involvement to be put on trial. Civil society activists 22-28 May held online campaign to highlight brutality and corruption in police and other law enforcement agencies, as well as to expose service provision weaknesses in roads and health sectors. Following recent instances of cross-border violence, President Museveni 19 May inked executive order banning armed Kenyan Turkanas from entering Uganda and asking Turkanas both to return all “stolen” cattle to Uganda and to surrender those alleged to have killed Ugandan geologists in March within six months pastoralists from Kenya’s Turkana county often cross into Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region during dry spell in search of water and pasture. Military around 11 May deployed additional troops in Karamoja sub-region bordering Kenya and South Sudan, where army continues disarmament exercise in bid to contain cattle thefts and herder-farmer violence. Meanwhile, authorities in Kayunga district said they were investigating 15 May robbery in which four gunmen in army uniforms set up illegal roadblocks near police station and robbed travellers.Ĭattle-related violence in Karamoja sub-region remained on govt’s agenda. Several other incidents of fatal gun violence involving police or private security guards reported in May throughout country. Also in Kampala, unidentified assailants 6 May shot influential vlogger Ibrahim Tusubira (alias Isma Olaxes) dead. Bodyguard 2 May shot and killed Labour Minister Charles Okello Engola at his home in capital Kampala. ![]() Spate of shootings put spotlight on gun violence and weak weapons control system. Assassination of minister by bodyguard headlined month of multiple killings involving security personnel.
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