The Human Rights Watch May 2018 special report discovered that Burundian state security forces, intelligence services, and members of the ruling partys youth league, the Imbonerakure, carried out brutal, targeted attacks on opponents or suspected opponents, human rights activists, and journalists, killing an estimated 1,700 people and forcibly disappearing, raping, torturing, beating, arbitrarily detaining, and intimidating countless others.
Taasisi ya kimataifa inayojihusisha na haki za Binadamu (The Human Rights Watch) mwezi Mei 2018 katika taarifa yake maalumu iliweka wazi kuwa majeshi ya nchi ya Burundi, usalama wa taifa na wanachama wa umoja wa vijana wa chama kinachotawala ambao wanajulikana kama Imbonerakure walifanya ukatili wakilenga wapinzani, wanaharakati wa haki za binadamu na waandishi wa habari, wakiuwa watu wapatao 1,700, ubakaji, mateso, kupigwa, vitisho na kukamata watu ovyo.