The Catholic Church in Burundi has raised the alarm over human rights violations in the country. In a statement issued at the end of their June 4-7 plenary meeting, the bishops said: “We are worried about the progressive increase of political intolerance which, in different parts of the country, provokes clashes and even victims.”
They noted that political tensions that have been stirring in the country for years have forced more than 374,000 Burundians to take refuge in neighbouring countries: Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and above all Tanzania, where Burundian refugees number more than 192,000. This is in a nation with a population of just 10 million.
