Ruler · 1953 – 1993

Melchior Ndadaye

Lived 1953 – 1993; politician. President of Burundi (Burundi), 1993.

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Lived: 1953 – 1993; 40 years
Lines: 1; Burundi
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of Burundi

Burundi · the 4th of 13 dated reigns · 1966 – 2020

Michel Micombero1966 – 1976

Jean-Baptiste Bagaza1976 – 1987

Pierre Buyoya1987 – 1993

Melchior Ndadaye1993

François Ngeze1993

Sylvie Kinigi1993 – 1994

Cyprien Ntaryamira1994

6 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1993 · under a year · came to it aged 40

Came to it: appointed
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: deliberate murder

Ndadaye was sworn in as President of Burundi on 10 July 1993.

Though he attempted 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.

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