Fiona Bruce
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Burundi
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Fiona Bruce (Congleton) (Con)
My hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy) is making a powerful speech and I know that the concern he is expressing today has endured for several years. Does he agree that addressing the issue is vital, because the political instability in what is already a very poor country is impacting on the poorest the most and in a devastating way?
If Members will bear with me, I would just like to refer to a report that I received this week relating to the children in an orphanage with which Project Umubano members who volunteer in Burundi have a relationship. It says that the children are so desperate for food and medicine that they are
“malnourished and often ill…can’t obtain medicines.. and there is a real risk that one or more may die.”
Jeremy Lefroy
I am most grateful to my hon. Friend, who has done a huge amount of work with Project Umubano. I have received the same report.
The Security Council resolution also strongly condemned
“the increased cases of human rights violations and abuses, including those involving extra-judicial killings, acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman and/or degrading treatment, arbitrary arrests”.