(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) 17 December 2015 The Human Rights Council this morning opened a Special Session on preventing the further deterioration of the human rights situation in Burundi. The Special Session was convened at the request of the United States, and called for by 18 other Member States of the Council and 29 Observer States, said Ambassador Joachim Rücker, President of the Human Rights Council. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that Burundi was at a bursting point and on the brink of a civil war, with violence and intimidation catapulting the country back to its deeply troubled, dark, and horrendously violent...
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