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David Ninganza: \u201cThe penal code must be revised to specify how to punish crimes of this kind\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n
He says Ndayikengurukiye Chadrack, a student from grade two in Post-Fundamental school and Bayubahe Didier, a student from grade six in Fundamental School, are the presumed perpetrators who intercepted them when they were coming from their field to pick up avocados. \u201cThey accused us of having stolen maize from their fields\u201d, he says. <\/p>\n
The presumed perpetrators say they cut the children\u2019s wrists thinking that they were coming from their fields to steal maize.<\/p>\n
L\u00e9onie Hatungimana, Bizimana\u2019s mother asks for justice. \u201cEven if they were criminals, their wrists would not be amputated,\u201d she says. Hatungimana says the land related conflict would be behind such a crime. \u201cThey live near us on the other mountain. It was a premeditated crime as I had also escaped from another attempt in the past\u201d, she says.
\nSalvator Bakundukize, social and administrative advisor to Itaba administrator, says what happened is regrettable. \u201cWe plan to sensitize people to the evil of mob justice\u201d, he says. <\/p>\n
David Ninganza, Spokesperson for the association defending children\u2019s rights- SOJPAE, says the penal code must be modified to punish seriously the perpetrators of such a crime. \u201cIt is inhuman that children cut other children\u2019s body parts,\u201d says Ningaza. <\/p>\n
He says the law governing the protection of children requires everyone to fight any form of violence against children. “The law must specify how to punish crimes of this kind,” he says.<\/p>\n
This children\u2019s rights defender urges educational partners and organizations involved in this field to combine their efforts to conduct an awareness campaign throughout the country in order to avoid justice. \u201cIt is an aggression for both the country and families\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
R B and N, are two children from Karemba hill in Itaba Commune of Gitega central province whose wrists have been amputated over maize robbery. \u201cIt was around 6 p.m. when we suddenly met two young men who forced us to put our hands up before starting to cut our wrists\u201d, says the victim, sitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,670],"tags":[140,1271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310"}],"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=7310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7315,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions\/7315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}