{"id":3754,"date":"2016-09-09T08:57:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T08:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2016-09-09T08:57:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T08:57:31","slug":"no-investigation-results-on-italian-nuns-murdered-in-bujumbura-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/no-investigation-results-on-italian-nuns-murdered-in-bujumbura-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"No investigation results on Italian nuns murdered in Bujumbura so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3753\" style=\"width: 492px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3753\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Trois-soeurs-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Three Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary murdered in Burundian capital\" width=\"482\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Trois-soeurs-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Trois-soeurs.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary murdered in Burundian capital<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two years on, Xaverian missionary sisters of Mary were brutally murdered in twin attacks on Sunday 7 September and 8 September Monday in their convent known as Guido Maria Conforti parish in the north of Bujumbura. The police said that two sisters, Olga Raschietti and Lucia Pulici, aged 75 and 82 respectively, were stabbed to death on 7 September afternoon. The third sister, Bernadetta Boggia aged 79, was killed in a second attack that occurred on 8 September, early morning.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, the chairman of the local non-governmental organization for human rights [APRODH] deplores the fact that the real authors of this triple murder have neither been identified nor judged so far. \u201cBujumbura government has never shown the will to shed light on this crime,\u201d he states.<\/p>\n<p>According to that human right defender, the case of the above mentioned catholic sisters was characterized by total confusion. \u201cWe always required independent investigations but in vain\u201d, he says<\/p>\n<p>He regrets that there are other crimes against humanity committed in Burundi. Mbonimpa adds that governments that have succeeded pretended to conduct investigations which are never completed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe keep pursuing the case and we hope that things will change .The Burundian justice will one day handle the issue,\u201d he hopes.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of the Burundian Justice Agnes Bangiricenge indicates that investigations on the assassination of the three Italian sisters are underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years on, Xaverian missionary sisters of Mary were brutally murdered in twin attacks on Sunday 7 September and 8 September Monday in their convent known as Guido Maria Conforti parish in the north of Bujumbura. The police said that two sisters, Olga Raschietti and Lucia Pulici, aged 75 and 82 respectively, were stabbed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[714,772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}