Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza on Wednesday announced that a much-delayed Truth and Reconciliation Commission to probe decades of ethnic killings would be set up in early 2012.
"This commission's work will be carried out over 2012 and 2013," Nkurunziza said in an address to the nation, adding that a special tribunal was to be created when the TRC completes its investigations.
The setting up of the TRC and the tribunal was due to have taken place in 2003, as stipulated by the 2000 Arusha peace accords.