Burundi: A Politician Asks for the Immediate Set Up of the Special Tribunal

Bujumbura — A high ranking Burundian political leader estimates that the Special Tribunal for Burundi (ST) should begin immediately, before even the beginning of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

"The opening of the TRC before the establishment of a Special Tribunal to try the crimes of genocide comes from trivialization and genocide negation", affirmed in a statement to the Hirondelle agency Gabriel Sinarinzi, president of a wing of the Uprona party (Union for National Progress, the pro-Tutsi opposition).

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