UN Report: Burundi's Security Forces Commiting Gang Rapes, Torture, And Mass Executions

New York Times: Burundi’s Forces Are Engaging in Gang Rape, U.N. Official Says

GENEVA — Burundi’s security forces are engaging in gang rape during a crackdown on political opponents that has included a sharp rise in torture, killings and disappearances in the past month, the top United Nations human rights official said on Friday, sounding an alarm over the increasingly ethnic character of the violence.

The charge of sexual violence adds a brutal new twist to a deepening nine-month crisis that has put Burundi, a poor, tiny nation in Central Africa, on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council and the African Union.

The United Nations said that at least 439 people, including many critics and people suspected of being opponents of the government, had been killed, and that close to a quarter of a million had fled to neighboring countries since President Pierre Nkurunziza decided in April to run for a third term.

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UN decries Burundi gang rapes, probes mass grave reports -- France 24
Burundi security troops gang-raped women, UN says -- BBC
UN Concerned About Reports of Gang-Rapes, Mass Graves in Burundi -- VOA
UN finds gang rape, mass graves in Burundi -- DW
UN Rights Chief Reports Burundi Claims of Rape, Mass Graves -- Bloomberg
UN: Gang rapes, torture and mass graves in Burundi -- Al Jazeera
UN says Burundi violence takes on dangerous ethnic tone -- DW
Burundi: ‘all alarm signals flashing red’ warns UN as reports of atrocities mount -- The Guardian