U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, and Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza (C) speak to the press in Gitega, Burundi January 22, 2016. REUTERS/Michelle Nichols
BANGUI (Reuters) - The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic is repatriating three military officers on suspicion they committed human rights violations during political unrest in their home country, Burundi, an internal document showed.
Ten months of violence triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term has left more than 400 people dead in Burundi, which emerged from an ethnically charged civil war in 2005. He won a disputed poll in July.
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