{"id":13854,"date":"2019-09-19T07:13:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=13854"},"modified":"2019-09-19T10:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T10:06:26","slug":"politicians-diverge-on-mandate-renewal-of-commission-of-inquiry-on-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/politicians-diverge-on-mandate-renewal-of-commission-of-inquiry-on-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians diverge on mandate renewal of Commission of Inquiry on Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L\u00e9once Ngendakumana, Deputy Chairman of Sahwanya FRODEBU party has said the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi has been established due to different human rights violations committed in Burundi in 2015 which are still observed today. In addition, he said, the government has refused to cooperate with the Commission. \u201cThe mandate renewal will be an opportunity to interact with the government, civil society organizations and other partners involved in the promotion of human rights,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10303\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10303\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/L\u00e9once-ngendakumana-et-Jean-de-Dieu-Mutabazi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/L\u00e9once-ngendakumana-et-Jean-de-Dieu-Mutabazi.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/L\u00e9once-ngendakumana-et-Jean-de-Dieu-Mutabazi-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/L\u00e9once-ngendakumana-et-Jean-de-Dieu-Mutabazi-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/L\u00e9once-ngendakumana-et-Jean-de-Dieu-Mutabazi-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean De Dieu Mutabazi (Right) and L\u00e9once Ngendakumana(Left)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On 17 September, during the interactive debate in the 42nd session of the Human Rights Council, Doudou Di\u00e8ne, Chairman of the Commission said the latter demands that the mandate of the Commission be renewed for one more year to ensure that there will remain at least one independent international mechanism in a position to monitor the human rights situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of Burundi government, R\u00e9novat Tabu, Burundi Representative in Geneva has said the country is ready for the 2020 elections. \u201cIt is unnecessary to renew the mandate of the Commission\u201d, he said.<br \/>\nL\u00e9once Ngendakumana, however, said it will be an opportunity for the Commission to identify all the crimes that should be committed during the electoral period. \u201cThe additional period will allow the Commission to revealing the truth and identify the perpetrators\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>As for Jean De Dieu Mutabazi, RADEBU party chairman, there is no need to renew the mandate of the Commission. \u201cIts reports are always biased and politically motivated,\u201d he said adding that the previous mandate didn\u2019t bring any added value. For him, the national mechanisms in charge of promoting the human rights such as the National Observatory for the prevention of genocide, humanity crimes and other crimes, the National Commission for Human Rights as well as the Ministry of Human Rights and other institutions should be supported to work more actively. \u201cThose institutions will contribute to the protection and promotion of human rights on the eve of the 2020 elections,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u00e9once Ngendakumana, Deputy Chairman of Sahwanya FRODEBU party has said the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi has been established due to different human rights violations committed in Burundi in 2015 which are still observed today. In addition, he said, the government has refused to cooperate with the Commission. \u201cThe mandate renewal will be an opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1177,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13855,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions\/13855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}