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Article: Five-member commission of inquiry to investigate violence, massacres. (Burundi: includes statement from UN Sec. Gen. Bhoutros Bhoutros-Ghali)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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A five-member international Commission of Inquiry has been set up by the Security Council to establish the facts relating to the 21 October 1993 assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye of Burundi during a failed coup attempt, as well as the massacres and related violence that followed.
"Deeply concerned that impunity creates contempt for law and leads to violations of international humanitarian law", the Council on 28 August, in adopting resolution 1012 (1995), asked Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to create the new body as a matter of urgency.
It stressed that "all persons who commit or authorize the commission of serious violations of ...