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Burundi “Every Morning They Beat Me” Police Abuses in Burundi This 42-page report documents 21 cases of beatings and torture of civilians carried out in October 2007 by a special reserve unit known as Rapid Mobile Intervention Group (Groupement Mobile d’Intervention Rapide, GMIR) in Muramvya province. Various victims described to Human Rights Watch how they were arbitrarily arrested, beaten with clubs and batons, subjected to death threats and mock executions, and forced to pay large bribes in exchange for freedom. HRW Index No.: ISBN: 1-56432-309-9 April 30, 2008 Also available in 
Download PDF, 446 KB, 41 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Paying the Price Violations of the Rights of Children in Detention in Burundi This 62-page report documents the many types of human rights violations that children experience in pre-trial detention, in the investigation and prosecution of cases, and while in prison. Based on interviews with more than 100 children as well as with prosecutors and prison staff, the report details cases of physical and sexual abuse of children by other inmates, shortages of food, poor sanitary conditions, and a total lack of any organized education inside the prisons. Human Rights Watch researchers conducted onsite visits to 10 of Burundi's 11 prisons. HRW Index No.: A1904 March 15, 2007 Also available in
Download PDF, 388 KB, 62 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “We flee when we see them” Abuses with Impunity at the National Intelligence Service in Burundi This 33-page report, “‘We flee when we see them’: Abuses with Impunity by the Burundi National Intelligence Service,” documents five incidents of extrajudicial executions, as well as instances of torture and arbitrary detention. Some detainees were beaten with batons until they lost consciousness. In one case, a detainee has been held for over 11 months in the SNR detention facilities without charge. October 25, 2006 Also available in
Download PDF, 356 KB, 35 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book A High Price to Pay Detention of Poor Patients in Burundian Hospitals This 75-page report documents how Burundian hospitals in 2005 detained hundreds of indigent patients, sometimes in inhumane conditions. Many of those detained were women giving birth who unexpectedly needed caesarian deliveries. In some cases, hospital authorities refused further medical care to those who could not pay their bills and forced them to vacate their beds for wealthier incoming patients. HRW Index No.: A1808 September 7, 2006 Also available in
Download PDF, 1830 KB, 77 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Burundi: Child Soldier Use 2003 A Briefing for the 4th UN Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict The government ratified the United Nations (UN) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and set 18 as the minimum recruitment age. National legislation had yet to be modified to reflect international commitments. Legal standards proved difficult to implement, given challenges to control over recruitment practices by government forces and paramilitaries in the interior.38According to a UN estimate about 14,000 children had carried or were still carrying arms in the ranks of government forces or armed opposition groups. January 16, 2004 Everyday Victims Civilians in the Burundian War The Burundian military and armed opposition forces have committed serious war crimes, including civilian killings and rapes. The recent political agreement between the major parties in Burundi’s ten-year civil war should not have granted immunity from prosecution for such blatant and widespread crimes. This 63-page report documents massacres and rapes of civilians and attacks on civilian property between April and November, when the government and the Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD), the main rebel group signed an peace accord guaranteeing all sides provisional immunity from prosecution for war crimes. HRW Index No.: A1520 December 22, 2003 Also available in
Download PDF, 388 KB, 63 pgs Purchase online To Protect the People: The Government-sponsored "Self-defense" Program in Burundi Government-sponsored paramilitary forces known as “Guardians of the Peace” have committed many killings, rapes, and other crimes over the last four years in Burundi, Human Rights Watch charged today. In an eighteen-page report entitled “To Protect the People: The Government-Sponsored ‘Self-Defense’ Program in Burundi,” Human Rights Watch called on the Burundian government to disband the paramilitary force, which has been responsible for many violations of international humanitarian law. The Guardians, as well as similar patrols in urban areas, were established by the previous government as part of a “civilian self-defense” program to combat rebel forces in the eight-year-old civil war. A recently installed transitional government has so far continued the program. 18pp, 3.00 HRW Index No.: (A1307) December 14, 2001 Download PDF Purchase online Burundi: Child Soldier Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers Up to 14,000 children have taken part in the civil war in Burundi. Since the August 2000 peace agreement, which explicitly protects children, fighting between government and opposition forces has continued and both sides have reportedly recruited children as young as 12, often from refugee and regroupment camps. There are also unconfirmed reports of the recruitment of young Kenyan youths and of young children being sent to fight in the Democratic Republic of Congo. June 12, 2001 Seeking Protection Addressing Sexual and Domestic Violence inTanzania's Refugee Camps Burundian refugee women confront daily violence in Tanzanian refugee camps, Human Rights Watch charges in a new report released today. Wide-spread sexual and domestic abuse have left many of these women physically battered, psychologically traumatized, and fearful for their lives HRW Index No.: 2483 October 1, 2000 Purchase online Burundi: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Key developments since March 1999: Based on information provided by the UNHCR and others, it appears likely that Burundi has been laying antipersonnel mines on its border with Tanzania. August 1, 2000 Emptying the Hills: Regroupment Camps in Burundi Although the government of Burundi has promised Nelson Mandela that it will close its squalid "regroupment" camps, that promise has not yet been fulfilled, Human Rights Watch charged in this report. The former South African president is leading a new round of the Burundi peace talks, opening tomorrow. Burundian rebel groups, who are of critical importance to any efforts to end the six-year civil war, have said they will attend the talks only if the regroupment camps are closed. The report also details abuses of the National Liberation Forces (Forces Nationales pour la Libération, FNL), a rebel group fighting the Burundian government. HRW Index No.: A1204 July 1, 2000 Purchase online Burundi: Neglecting Justice in Making Peace Continuing abuses of civilians by all parties, the growing regionalization of the Central African conflict, and the threat of increased violence from extremist organizations underscore the urgency of ending the war in Burundi. But a peace without accountability for past crimes offers little hope for future stability within Burundi or the larger region. More than one hundred thousand civilians have been slain in Burundi, both by Hutu and by Tutsi. Many of these killings are crimes against humanity and some have been described as genocide by a U.N. commission of inquiry. HRW Index No.: A1202 April 1, 2000 Proxy Targets: Civilians in the War in Burundi The civilian population of Burundi feels trapped between the two sides in the civil war, as both the armed forces and the rebels have used civilians as proxy targets. The civil war raging in Burundi since October 1993 has above all been a war against civilians. When Major Pierre Buyoya took power in a July 1996 coup, he claimed that he was intervening to prevent an expansion of ethnic violence. Since then, however, the armed forces of Burundi have engaged in massive violations of human rights. HRW Index No.: 1-56432-179-7 March 1, 1998 Purchase online
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