Melchior Ndadaye, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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President of Burundi
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Place of Birth: Muramvya Province, Burundi
About Melchior Ndadaye
- Melchior Ndadaye (March 28, 1953 – October 21, 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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