{"id":8822,"date":"2018-05-24T08:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8822"},"modified":"2018-05-24T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T12:32:12","slug":"batwa-community-concerned-over-members-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/batwa-community-concerned-over-members-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Batwa community concerned over members\u2019 killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Nengo, Legal Representative of the Union for Batwa Promotion in Burundi-UNIPROBA says Batwa community is threatened these days. He refers to the last killing of D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Kubwami, aged 30, from Muhweza hill in Buhiga Commune of Karuzi Province killed on 18 May, one day after the referendum. \u201cWe have deployed a team to the ground to collect information from his family, the local administration and the police to determine the reasons of this killing,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8829\" style=\"width: 487px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8829\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nengo-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Emmanuel Nengo: \u201cWe deplore this behavior given that there is no evidence proving this banditry\u201d\" width=\"477\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nengo-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nengo-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nengo-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nengo.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emmanuel Nengo: \u201cWe deplore this behavior given that there is no evidence proving this banditry\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nengo says similar cases were reported in Gitega and Cibitoke provinces. \u201cThey are often accused of banditry and killed through mob justice,\u201d he says. He, however, says the local administration and the police haven\u2019t yet done anything to identify the perpetrators. \u201cWe deplore this behavior given that there is no evidence proving this banditry\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>The association Union for Batwa Promotion in Burundi urges the local administration and the police to be more active to stop the cases. \u201cIt is not understandable that people continue to make mob justice instead of bringing them to court and be judged,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Nengo urges its community members to contact immediately the local administration and the police so that they should intervene as soon as possible. \u201cWe continue to work closely with the local administration and the police so that such crimes be cracked,\u201d he says.<br \/>\nIwacu has tried to contact the local administration for more details in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Nengo, Legal Representative of the Union for Batwa Promotion in Burundi-UNIPROBA says Batwa community is threatened these days. He refers to the last killing of D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Kubwami, aged 30, from Muhweza hill in Buhiga Commune of Karuzi Province killed on 18 May, one day after the referendum. \u201cWe have deployed a team to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,670],"tags":[87,1229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822"}],"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=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8836,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions\/8836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}