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(Nairobi, October 27, 2017)\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Burundi<\/a>\u2019s official withdrawal of its membership from the\u00a0International Criminal Court (ICC)<\/a>\u00a0became effective on October 26, 2017, following its\u00a0formal notification of its withdrawal<\/a>\u00a0to the United Nations secretary-general a year earlier. Under the Rome Statute, the ICC\u2019s founding treaty, withdrawal takes effect one year after this notification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Burundi has been a state party to the ICC since 2004. Since April 2015, when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his controversial bid for a third term, government security forces and members of the Imbonerakure,\u00a0<\/em>the youth league of the ruling party,\u00a0<\/em>have\u00a0<\/em>cracked down\u00a0on political opposition members<\/a> and perceived ruling party opponents. In April 2016, the\u00a0ICC prosecutor opened a preliminary examination<\/a>\u00a0into crimes committed in Burundi since April 2015.<\/p>\n

In September, a UN-mandated commission of inquiry\u00a0confirmed\u00a0that there were reasonable grounds<\/a> to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed in Burundi, including murder, torture, rape, imprisonment, and persecution, against a backdrop of almost total impunity. The commission urged the ICC to investigate these violations.<\/p>\n

Article 127 of the Rome Statute, which lays out the consequences of a state\u2019s withdrawal, does not explicitly mention the impact of withdrawal on the court\u2019s jurisdiction over crimes committed on a state\u2019s territory while it was still a member.<\/p>\n

\u201cBurundi\u2019s official withdrawal from the International Criminal Court is the latest example of the government\u2019s deplorable efforts to shield those responsible for grave human rights violations from any kind of accountability,\u201d said\u00a0Param-Preet Singh<\/a>, associate director of international justice at Human Rights Watch. \u201cWe urge the ICC to take a progressive approach in interpreting its jurisdiction so that victims maintain a viable path to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Nairobi, October 27, 2017)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Burundi\u2019s official withdrawal of its membership from the\u00a0International Criminal Court (ICC)\u00a0became effective on October 26, 2017, following its\u00a0formal notification of its withdrawal\u00a0to the United Nations secretary-general a year earlier. Under the Rome Statute, the ICC\u2019s founding treaty, withdrawal takes effect one year after this notification. 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