{"id":15697,"date":"2020-04-10T07:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T07:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15697"},"modified":"2020-04-10T07:49:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T07:49:05","slug":"ernest-manirumva-olucome-denounces-miscarriage-of-justice-after-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/ernest-manirumva-olucome-denounces-miscarriage-of-justice-after-11-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernest Manirumva: Olucome denounces miscarriage of justice after 11 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Deswaef, lawyer of the corruption-watchdog-Olucome says there are no investigation and fair trial that have been so far carried out to bring the real murderers and sponsors of the assassination of Ernest Manirumva before the court in Burundi. \u201cThis is a miscarriage of justice after 11 years of his assassination,\u201d says Deswaef.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15701\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15701\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Manirumva-Ernest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Manirumva-Ernest.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Manirumva-Ernest-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Manirumva-Ernest-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Manirumva-Ernest-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernest Manirumva was killed in the night of 8-9 April 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He also says OLUCOME has noticed that people who were prosecuted and would probably be implicated in his assassination are free except Hilaire Ndayizamba detained for over 10 years.\u201d These fallacious procedures and convictions should be cancelled to resume the investigations so that the truth be revealed,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer also adds that Olucome asked, in January 2020, for a new schedule of this case before the cassation court in vain. \u201cThe last hearing was scheduled for September 4, 2014 before being postponed indefinitely,\u201d says the lawyer adding that this case had been fixed before the Supreme Court twice but the hearings were postponed over hidden motives.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Deswaef says Olucome plans to bring this case to the international bodies. \u201cWe expect to appeal to the African Union Court for Human Rights and also refer to the UN rapporteur for the lack of independence of Burundian judicial officials,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Ernest Manirumva was the Deputy Chairman of Olucome. He was killed in the night of 8-9 April 2009. Iwacu has tried to look for the office of the General Attorney but to no avail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Deswaef, lawyer of the corruption-watchdog-Olucome says there are no investigation and fair trial that have been so far carried out to bring the real murderers and sponsors of the assassination of Ernest Manirumva before the court in Burundi. \u201cThis is a miscarriage of justice after 11 years of his assassination,\u201d says Deswaef. 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