The First Deputy-Speaker of the Senate of Burundi receives in audience the President of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, the First Deputy-Speaker of the Senate, Honourable Denise Ndadaye, along with the Second Deputy-Speaker of the Senate, Honourable Fabrice Nkurunziza, received in audience the President of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Ambassador Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, at the Senate palace in Gitega, the political capital of Burundi.

At the end of the audience, Ambassador Pierre Claver Ndayicariye indicated that the objective of his visit was to submit the report on the achievements of the TRC, fiscal year 2023. He noted that this report includes three essential parts: the census carried out in the provinces of Cankuzo, Bururi and Rumonge, and which made it possible to identify the perpetrators of the crimes, the victims, as well as the people who protected others, during the cyclical crises that Burundi has experienced.

He explained that this report also contains the meetings that the TRC organized for the diaspora; in Kigoma (Tanzania), Nairobi (Kenya), Brussels (Belgium) and Washington (United States of America), in order to de-traumatize, through words, Burundians who carry the pain linked to the large number of years of exile, the loss of their loved ones and their property.

He made it known that this report also describes the meetings that the commission organized inside the country, at the level of provinces, religious denominations, universities, civil society organizations as well as political parties, so that they speak out about the activities of the TRC and discover the horrors and atrocities of previous years.