Whereas President Nkurunziza of Burundi was elected for a third term in July 2015, which was regarded by many as violating the 2000 Arusha Peace Agreement, which ended a civil war that claimed over 300,000 lives between 1993 and 2005; Whereas, on September 4, 2017, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burundi announced that it had reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed and continue to be committed by individuals associated with the government in Burundi since April 2015; Whereas since April 2015, more than 2,000 people have been killed in politically inspired violence while an unknown number of individuals have been the victim of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, gender-based violence, arbitrary arrests, and torture, which have left populations in Burundi at risk of mass atrocities and contributed to a pervasive climate of fear and insecurity; Whereas opposition elements have been accused of perpetrating grenade attacks in Bujumbura and ruling party and opposition supporters have been engaged in a series of tit-for-tat assassinations; Whereas, on April 18, 2017, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed deep alarm over hate speech and grotesque rape chants by members of the Imbonerakure, the youth militia of the ruling party, stating that this type of organized incitement rings very loud alarm bells ; Whereas President Nkurunziza has suggested he may run for a fourth term in 2020, and has appointed a 15-member commission to propose draft amendments to the constitution; Whereas according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 420,000 Burundians are refugees in neighboring countries, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has estimated that nearly 210,000 Burundians are internally displaced