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Burundi’s leading independent newspaper Iwacu once asked if Gervais Ndirakobuca wasn’t simply an “untouchable suspect”. (Jennifer Huxta/AFP via Getty Images)
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Burundi’s new security minister has a long and bloody past

Gervais Ndirakobuca is under international sanctions for human rights violations — abductions, disappearances, murder, turture — when people protested against the president…

  • Thierry Uwamahoro
7 min read