Allegations of gang rape,torture and mass graves prompt warning from UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein that law and order is close to collapseThe UN has warned that a total breakdown of law and order is just around the corner” in Burundi as it examines allegations of gang-rapes, enforced disappearances and the digging of mass graves during the eruption of violence that left dozens of people dead final month. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, or the UN high commissioner for human rights,said growing reports of atrocities in the east African country meant that “all the alarm signals – including the increasing ethnic dimension of the crisis – are flashing red”.
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Source: theguardian.com