Burundi asks BBC to pull down 'fake report' on killings

House number 76 in Kinindo, Bujumbura, believed to have been a secret torture facility. PHOTO | MOSES HAVYARIMANA | NMG

Burundi's Justice Minister Laurentine Kanyana has called a documentary by the British Broadcasting Corporation a ''fake report'' and has demanded the broadcaster pull it down and pay damages to those tarnished by its airing.

The documentary titled Inside Burundi’s Killing Machine and made by BBC’s Africa Eye, shows the alleged systematic killings of opposition members by the police and intelligence in what it calls secret torture facilities.