UN Security Council
2016

Burundi between April 2015 and April 2016, committed mostly by the Burundian security forces as reported by OHCHR, and expressing concern over the significant number of arrest and detention cases involving children, who are often held in adult prisons, Noting the cooperation and access provided by the Government of Burundi to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Noting the visits to Burundi from 1 to 8 March and from 13 to 17 June 2016 of the experts of the United Nations Independent Investigation on Burundi (UNIIB) requested by the Human Rights Council in its resolution of 17 December 2015, Recalling that Burundi is a State Party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and has obligations to fight impunity for crimes falling within the jurisdiction of the Court, emphasizing that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is complementary to national criminal jurisdictions, and noting the opening on 25 April 2016 of a preliminary examination by the Prosecutor of the ICC into the situation in Burundi since April 2015,