Burundi Quits International Criminal Court
27, 2017
NAIROBI, Kenya — One month after a scathing United Nations report
that called for a criminal investigation likely to lead back to its leaders, Burundi has withdrawn from the International Criminal Court, becoming the first country in the world to do so.
A United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burundi reported in September
that it had found evidence of extrajudicial killings, disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture and sexual violence in the two-and-a-half years since Burundi’s president, Pierre Nkurunziza, muscled his way to a third term in office.
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