It might end up being more of a question and a comment.
I listened to your story today. We've had other witnesses come in and talk about the impunity that exists in Burundi, not just this time but on a past occasion as well. I'm just wondering, and you've already commented a bit on this, why countries can treat the UN and its international agencies with such contempt. Burundi still sits on the UN Human Rights Council. As far as I can tell, there's been no pressure. We file reports. We put commissions in place. They assign police forces, and they just say “we're not interested,” and that's the end of that, other than the rest of us complaining about it a bit. The AU has 54 members, the United Nations has 193 and they can't seem to put enough pressure on any of these countries to change their behaviour to actually attempt to have them adhere to their own constitutions.
Why are these international agencies so impotent when it comes to these issues?