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Melchior Ndadaye

President of Burundi

Died when: 40 years 207 days (486 months)
Star Sign: Aries

 

Melchior Ndadaye

Melchior Ndadaye (28 March 1953 – 21 October 1993) was a Burundian intellectual and politician.He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election.

Though he moved to attempt to smooth the country's bitter ethnic divide, his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army, and he was assassinated amidst a failed military coup in October 1993, after only three months in office.

His assassination sparked an array of brutal tit-for-tat massacres between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups, and ultimately sparked the decade-long Burundi Civil War.


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