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In August 1988, violence broke out and the army massacred thousands of Hutus. Facing substantial foreign pressure, Buyoya initiated reforms designed to end Burundi's systemic ethnic violence, [5] while UPRONA attempted to incorporate more Hutus into its ranks. [1] The Tutsi establishment in the army and security forces nevertheless resisted ...
Urban street gangs, many of which had been biethnic before 1993, split along ethnic lines and began to work for extremist politicians. They received money and guns, and in return demonstrated, and murdered on the orders of the Tutsi and Hutu parties. [16] An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people died within a year [17] about as many Hutu as Tutsi ...
The ethnic violence following the coup lasted to the end of the year. [98] Initial estimates of the death toll ranged from 25,000 to 500,000. A joint study conducted by the United Nations Population Fund and the Burundian government in 2002 estimated the number of people killed from 21 October to 31 December 1993 to be 116,059, with at least ...
The following lists events that happened during 1993 in Burundi. Incumbents. President: until July 10: Pierre Buyoya; July 10-October 21: Melchior Ndadaye;
[13] [10] Since independence, Burundi has seen extensive violence between members of the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. [17] Burundi's post-colonial ethnic tensions have especially been compared to those in Rwanda, which saw similar ethnic tension between Hutu and Tutsi flare up into violence on several occasions, notably during the Rwandan ...
1993 ethnic violence: 21 October to 31 December 1993 Nationwide 25,000 [1] Titanic Express massacre [4] December 28, 2000 Bujumbura Rural: 21 [5] Bus attack by the Hutu-extremist group Palipehutu-FNL Itaba massacre: September 9, 2002 Itaba 267 [6] Gatumba refugee camp massacre September 7, 2004 Gatumba: 160 [7]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An official in Burundi says nine people have been killed in an attack by rebels opposed to his government and again accuses neighboring Rwanda of supporting the armed group.
Melchior Ndadaye (28 March 1953 – 21 October 1993) was a Burundian banker and politician who became the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he attempted to smooth the country's bitter ethnic divide, his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army, and ...