CASE No - Inter-Parliamentary Union

CL/183/SR.1
ANNEX IX
BURUNDI
CASE No. BDI/36 - MATHIAS BASABOSE
CASE No. BDI/42 - PASTEUR MPAWENAYO
CASE No. BDI/44 - HUSSEIN RADJABU
CASE No. BDI/45 - ALICE NZOMUKUNDA
CASE No. BDI/46 - ZAITUNI RADJABU
CASE No. BDI/47 - PASCALINE KAMPAYANO
CASE No. BDI/48 - MARGUERITE NSHIMIRIMANA
CASE No. BDI/49 - NADINE NZOMUKUNDA
CASE No. BDI/50 - BÉATRICE NIBIMPA
CASE No. BDI/51 - MARIE GORETH NIYONZIMA
CASE No. BDI/52 - MOUSSA SAIDI
CASE No. BDI/53 - THÉOPHILE MINYURANO
CASE No. BDI/54 - OMAR MOUSSA
CASE No. BDI/55 - JOSÉPHINE MUKERABIRORI
CASE No. BDI/56 - DÉO NYABENDA
CASE No. BDI/57 - GÉRARD NKURUNZIZA
CASE No. BDI/58 - JEAN FIDELE KANA
CASE No. BDI/59 - MARIE SINDARUSIBA
CASE No. BDI/60 - DEO NSHIMIRIMANA
CASE No. BDI/61 - F. XAVIER NSABABANDI
CASE No. BDI/62 - JEAN MARIE NGENDAHAYO
CASE No. BDI/63 - ALINE NITANGA
Resolution adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 183 rd session
(Geneva, 15 October 2008)
The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Having before it the case of the above-mentioned members of parliament of Burundi, who
lost their parliamentary seats on 5 June 2008, which has been the subject of a study and report of the
Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians following the Procedure for the treatment by the
Inter-Parliamentary Union of communications concerning violations of the human rights of members of
parliament,
Taking note of the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians,
which contains a detailed outline of the case (CL/183/12(b)-R.1),
Taking account of the hearing the Committee held with the President of the CNDD-FDD to
the 119 th IPU Assembly,
Considering the following information on file:
- The parliamentarians in question were elected in July 2005 on the CNDD-FDD list, which
obtained the majority of seats in the National Assembly; as time passed the party
experienced internal dissent, which became more pronounced after the party convention
of 7 February 2007, during which Mr. Hussein Radjabu was ousted as party leader; as a
result, one wing was formed that backed the party’s new president, Mr. Jérémie
Ngendakumana, while another backed Mr. Radjabu; the persons concerned belong to the
latter wing; except for Ms. Nzomukunda, 21 the former Vice-President of the National
Assembly, and Mr. Basabose, both of whom were expelled from the party, and Mr. Kana
and Ms. Sindarusiba, the other members of parliament resigned from the party and
continued to sit in the National Assembly as independent members;
- Other political parties, in particular FRODEBU, also met with dissidence, which
encouraged some of its members to join the dissenting members of the CNDD-FDD in
abstaining from (regular) participation in the work of the National Assembly, as a
consequence of which the National Assembly failed to reach the quorum needed to adopt
decisions, and its work was blocked;
21 Ms. Nzomukunda was excluded from the party during the CNDD-FDD convention held on 26 January 2008
in Muyinga.