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141. D’envisager, en cas de persistance de la situation actuelle au Burundi, l’application
de l’article 4 (h) de son Acte constitutif, autorisant l’Union africaine à intervenir dans un
État membre dans certaines circonstances, notamment en cas de crimes contre l’humanité.
9.
À la Communauté des États d’Afrique de l’Est
142. De s’assurer que l’amélioration rapide de la situation des droits de l’homme soit une
priorité dans ses efforts de médiation.
10.
Aux garants de l’Accords d’Arusha de 2000, en leur qualité d’acteurs engagés en
faveur d’une paix durable au Burundi
143. De se réunir le plus rapidement possible en vue de trouver une solution pérenne à la
crise politique et des droits de l’homme au Burundi.
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1.
The Burundian authorities should:
144. Put an immediate end to the gross human rights violations being committed by
agents of the State and Imbonerakure over which the State exercises control;
145. Investigate these violations, ensure that the alleged perpetrators are prosecuted
promptly in accordance with credible, independent and fair procedures, and that the victims
obtain just reparation, and, where the alleged perpetrators are agents of the State, suspend
them from their duties pending the completion of the investigation and the judicial
proceedings;
146. Take practical measures to bring about a rapid improvement of the human rights
situation, in particular by:
• Withdrawing the warrants for the arrest of heads of media outlets, civil society
organizations and political parties who have neither used nor advocated violence, and
permitting their safe return to Burundi;
• Lifting the suspension and reversing the revocation of the licences of media and civil
society organizations, permitting them to resume their activities with complete
independence and reviewing the laws adopted in 2017 concerning non-profit
organizations and foreign non-governmental organizations;
• Immediately releasing all political prisoners;
• Ensuring that every person arrested is detained in an official place of detention and
that national and international observers are allowed to visit them;
• Ensure that criminal investigation officers (officiers de police judiciaire) are not
authorized to conduct searches without a warrant, including at night, as envisaged in
the draft amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure;
• Ensuring that individuals lacking legal authorization, particularly the Imbonerakure,
do not perform or participate in law enforcement activities, including in places of
detention, and do not wear military or police uniforms or possess weapons;
• Prosecuting individuals who incite hatred or violence;
• Putting an end to threats, intimidation and acts of extortion by State officials and the
Imbonerakure;
• Giving victims of sexual violence and torture access to medical and psychosocial
services.
147.
Undertake a thorough reform of the judiciary, in particular by:
• Publishing the conclusions of the General Convention on the Judiciary (États
généraux de la justice) held in Gitega in 2013;
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