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Article 8
• Claim of universal suffrage
Suffrage is universal, equal, free and transparent. It may be direct or indirect under
the conditions specified by the law.
• Restrictions on voting
All Burundians being already [révolus] eighteen years of age and enjoying their civil
and political rights[,] are electors, within the conditions determined by the electoral
code.
• National capital
Article 9
The capital of Burundi is established at Bujumbura. The law may transfer it to any
other place in the Republic.
• National flag
Article 10
The flag of Burundi is tricolor: green, white and red. It has the form of a rectangle
divided by a saltire [un sautoir], having [comportant] in its center a white disc
stamped [frappé] with three six-pointed red stars that form a fictive equilateral
triangle inscribed within a fictive circle having the same center as the disc and whose
base is parallel to the length of the flag.
The law specifies the dimensions and the other details of the flag.
Article 11
• National motto
The motto of Burundi is "Unité, Travail, Progrés [Unity, Work, Progress]". The
emblem of the Republic of Burundi is a shield stamped with the head of the lion as
well as with three lances, all of it surrounded by the national motto.
• National anthem
The national anthem is "Burundi Bwacu."
The seal of the Republic is determined by the law.
• Requirements for birthright citizenship
• Conditions for revoking citizenship
Article 12
The quality of [being] Burundian is acquired, is conserved and is lost accordingly to
the conditions determined by the law.
The children born of Burundian men or women have the same rights with regard to
the law on nationality.
2. OF THE FUNDAMENTAL VALUES
• Human dignity
• Equality regardless of gender
• Equality regardless of race
• Equality regardless of language
• Equality regardless of religion
• Human dignity
Article 13
All Burundians are equal in [their] merits and dignity. All citizens enjoy the same
rights and have right to the same protection of the law. No Burundian may be
excluded from the social, economical or political life of the nation because of their
race, of their language, of their religion, of their sex or of their ethnic origin.
Article 14
All Burundians have the right to live in Burundi within peace and within security.
They must live together in harmony, while respecting the human dignity and
tolerating their differences.
Burundi 2005
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