LCP4801 Assignment 1
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Semester 2 2023 (738987) - DUE
4 September 2023
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Assignment Question
In April 2016, the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC)
received the ultimate report of the fact-finding mission of the African
Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to Burundi. The report
highlighted that:
“Government security personnel and affiliated groups perpetrated wide
selection of violations. Not only that these violations were perpetrated
repeatedly but also they overtime became part and parcel of the
response of security forces to the violent expressions of opposition to
the govt.. The violations have thus been pervasive and systematic”.
On the idea of this report, the PSC recommended the deployment of
5,000 peacekeeping troops to Burundi, a concept that was later
rejected by the African Union Assembly.
Based on the scenario above, answer the subsequent questions:
a) In terms of Article 4 paragraph h of the African Union Constitutive
Act, list and briefly explain the grounds for intervention within the affairs
of its member states. [10]
In terms of Article 4(h) of the African Union Constitutive Act 2000
establishes the proper of the Union to intervene during a member state
to a call the Assembly in respect of grave circumstances, namely:
a) war crimes where there is a requirement for the defence of the
sovereignty of the state, the independence of its Member States
and the territorial integrity;
b) Genocide this is directed against any civilian population' which
involves multiple commission of acts against any civilian
population,
c) and crimes against humanity which relates to acts committed as
a part of a widespread or systematic attack that is directed
against any civilian population. Attacks such as murder,
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