Quebec City: Burundi and Cbc News

quebec city: In an address at the conference, Willy Nyamitwe, a communications advisor to President Pierre Nkurunziza, said reports of human rights abuses by Nkurunziza supporters are overblown, according to CBC. Burundi clashes kill almost 90 "I wanted the Canadian opinion to hear another part of the story about Burundi, because some news stories are really biased about Burundi," Nyamitwe told CBC News following his July 30 speech. Global Affairs Canada issued a sternly worded statement following a controversial event last week in Quebec City, at which a senior member of the current Burundian government spoke. International observers have grown alarmed about an ongoing crackdown on opposition groups in Burundi. Human Rights Watch has said abuses have also been committed by armed opposition groups. The United Nations and several rights groups have documented numerous cases of torture and extra-judicial killings in the East African country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.