{"id":8577,"date":"2018-04-30T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T10:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8577"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T11:32:55","slug":"melchiade-nzopfabarushe-to-be-judged-overhate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/melchiade-nzopfabarushe-to-be-judged-overhate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Melchiade Nzopfabarushe to be judged over hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a video that went viral on social media this Saturday April 28, Melchiade Nzopfabarushe, a Belgian-Burundian lawyer and member of the ruling party CNDD-FDD, has said those who will oppose the upcoming constitutional referendum will end up in Tanganyika Lake.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8578\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8578\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Nzopfabarushe.jpg\" alt=\"Melchiade Nzopfabarushe, accused of using hate language\" width=\"376\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Nzopfabarushe.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Nzopfabarushe-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melchiade Nzopfabarushe, accused of using hate language<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr. Nzopfabarushe frightens whoever will dare oppose the government\u2019s determination to amend the constitution saying they will be killed and thrown into Lake Tanganyika.<\/p>\n<p>After the video became widespread on social media, different authorities condemned his speech saying it incites hatred.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary General of the ruling party appealed to the Justice to investigate the case. &#8220;@CnddFdd was surprised to hear hate words attributed to Melchiade Nzopfabarushe, the remarks that may disrupt Burundians\u2019 unity and cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>The party appeals to all its members for political tolerance and asks the justice to do its job,\u201d reads a tweet by Evariste Ndayishimiye, CNDD-FDD party Secretary General.<\/p>\n<p>The Burundian Ombudsman also condemned the hateful words used by a member of CNDD-FDD party. \u201cThe words he used stir up hatred and go against the party\u2019s ideology on the eve of the 2018 constitutional referendum\u201d reads a tweet by Edouard Nduwimana, Burundian Ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday 29 April, Melchiade Nzopfabarushe was auditioned by the public prosecutor and the case continues this Monday April 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video that went viral on social media this Saturday April 28, Melchiade Nzopfabarushe, a Belgian-Burundian lawyer and member of the ruling party CNDD-FDD, has said those who will oppose the upcoming constitutional referendum will end up in Tanganyika Lake. Mr. Nzopfabarushe frightens whoever will dare oppose the government\u2019s determination to amend the constitution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[154,1257],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8595,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions\/8595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}