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Melchior Ndadaye

1953–1993 · 20th century

Melchior Ndadaye was the first democratically elected president of Burundi and its first Hutu head of state. Leader of the FRODEBU party, he won the election of June 1993 and took office in July. He was killed in a coup attempt by Tutsi army officers on 21 October 1993, and the massacres that followed began the Burundian Civil War.

Melchior Ndadaye
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Republic of Burundi

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