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The judicial power, guardian of the public rights and freedoms, assures the respect
for these rights and freedoms within the conditions specified by the law.
Article 61
No one shall abuse the rights recognized by the Constitution or by the law to
compromise the national unity, the peace, the democracy, the independence of
Burundi, infringe the secularity of the State or violate in any other manner this
Constitution.
2. OF THE FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL
AND OF THE CITIZEN
Article 62
Every person has the duty to respect their compatriots and to show them
consideration, without any discrimination.
Article 63
Each citizen has duties toward the family and the society, toward the State and the
other public collectivities.
Article 64
Every Burundian has the duty to preserve and to reinforce the national unity in
accordance with the Charte de l'Unité Nationale [Charter of the National Unity].
• Duty to obey the constitution
Article 65
Each one is required to respect the laws and the institutions of the Republic.
Article 66
Each Burundian has the duty to preserve the harmonious development of the family
and to act [æuvrer] in favor of the cohesion and the respect for that family, to
respect at every moment their parents, to nourish them and to assist them in case of
necessity.
Article 67
Each individual has the duty to respect and to consider their fellow man without any
discrimination, and to maintain with them relations that permit [them] to promote, to
safeguard and to reinforce respect and tolerance.
Article 68
Each Burundian must see, in their relations with society, to the preservation and to
the reinforcement of the Burundian cultural values and contribute to the
establishment of a morally healthy society.
Burundi 2005
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