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Mob Justice in Burundi
Official Complicity and Impunity
Map of
Burundi
I. Summary
II.
Recommendations
III.
Methodology
IV. Overview
of Local Administrative, Police, and Judicial Structures in Burundi
Administrative
Structures
Police
Structures
Judicial
Structures
Case Study
1: Participation and Negligence in Mob Justice by State Officials in Buraza,
Gitega Province, July 2009
V. Policing
in Burundi: Impunity, Corruption, and the Incidence of Mob Justice
Police
Ineffectiveness in Providing Security
Distribution
of officers
Difficult
conditions at night
Commitment
and resources
Criminal
behavior by police
Ineffectiveness
in Investigations by Police and Prosecutors
Release of
Suspects
Corruption
Lack of
Awareness of Legitimate Reasons for Release
A Note on
“Sorcery” Accusations and Mob Justice
Case Study
2: Delivering Suspects to the Mob, Gisuru, Ruyigi Province, September 2009
VI.
Involvement and Complicity of Officials in Mob Justice
Direct Role
of State Officials
Mob Justice
as Political Violence
Unconditional
Support for Untrained “Security Committees”
Official
Negligence
Case Study
3: Mob Justice by Youth “Security Committees,” Kinyinya Ruyigi
Province, May 2009
VII. State
Failure to Investigate and Prosecute Mob Justice Cases
Protecting
Local Power Brokers
Succumbing
to Public Pressure
“The
Police Thought It Was Justified”
Absence of
Complaint
“Amiable
Resolution”
Government
Obligation to Investigate
VIII.
Responses of Burundian Government
IX.
International Actors and Burundian Civil Society
Police
Justice
Gaps in
Donor Support
Burundian
Civil Society and Media and International NGOs
Annex: Mob
Justice Cases Resulting in Death, 2009
Acknowledgements
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