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	Burundians mark 10 years of war but glimmers of peace on horizon
		The civil war was sparked 10 years ago by the assassination of Burundi's first Hutu president Melchior Ndadaye in an attempted military coup.
		"Ndadaye's death was a necessary passage for Burundi in order for this country to arrive at true democracy," he added.
		For the Tutsi minority, haunted by the fear of being exterminated by the Hutu majority, "President Ndadaye's death served as an excuse for Hutus to launch into the genocide of Tutsis", Charles Mukasi, president of the hardline wing of the main Tutsi party, the Union for National Progress (UPRONA).
	www.spacewar.com /2003/031021014508.ihju8umm.html (574 words)

	Melchior on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Katie Melchior, 5, enjoys careening through the extra-wide hallways in her family's home in North Oaks, Minnesota.
		A special rack for dinner plates was installed in Lynn Melchior's kitchen to accommodate her limited reach.
		Tim and Lynn Melchior have customized their North Oaks, Minnesota, home to accomondate Lynn's health problems she was struck by a snow plow.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-Melchior.asp (764 words)

	Further Instability - History - Burundi - Africa
		Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu and a member of the Burundi Democracy Front, won the elections with 60 percent of the vote.
		In October 1993 army factions loyal to Bagaza assassinated Ndadaye, and instability in neighboring Rwanda spread to Burundi.
		Ndadaye’s death provoked waves of ethnic violence that sent thousands of refugees fleeing into neighboring Rwanda.
	www.countriesquest.com /africa/burundi/history/further_instability.htm (366 words)

	Sylvie Kanigi
		Ndadaye had defeated in the June 1993 elections (BBC Summary of Foreign Broadcasts,1993b).
		On November 1, eleven days after the coup attempt and the killing of President Ndadaye, Prime Minister Kanigi left the refuge of the French Embassy to talk with surviving provincial leaders and representatives of both loyal and rebellious factions of the Tutsi-dominated army (United Press International, 1993).
		She emphatically rejected the coup leaders's requests for a general amnesty, maintaining that the coup plotters must be prosecuted.
	www.professorhill.com /pdf/kanigi.htm (1550 words)

	1993 Human Rights Report: BURUNDI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		President Ndadaye was sworn into office in an exemplary change of power on July 10; and the National Assembly was sworn in shortly thereafter and held its initial session on July 19.
		In his 100 days in office, Ndadaye cautiously began discussing reform of the 18,000 member Tutsi-dominated security forces, consisting of the military (army and gendarmerie), the police, and the Surete; to increase Hutu representation in many other institutions, including the judiciary and the civil service; and to encourage the return of thousands of Hutu refugees.
		Upon President Ndadaye's assumption of office, two former ministers and several former government officials from the former Bagaza regime were released from prison provisionally in July.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_africa/Burundi.html (5879 words)

	Africast Global Africa Network- News
		Those reprieved include former non-commissioned Tutsi soldiers reportedly involved in the murder of the country`s first elected Hutu President, Melchior Ndadaye, in late 1993.
		Ndadaye`s murder triggered Burundi`s civil war, which dragged on for more than a decade.
		The minister told journalists the decision to pardon the prisoners was based on the report of an experts` commission.
	news.africast.com /africastv/article.php?newsID=57547 (90 words)

	The NCAA News: News & Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A Tutsi, he grew up running the five miles to and from school each day, and by his junior year in high school he was a three-time national champion in both the 400- and 800-meter races.
		Then Burundi voters elected Melchior Ndadaye, the nation's first democratically elected president as well as the first Hutu to hold the office.
		Ndadaye was assassinated shortly after his election in a coup led by Tutsi tribesmen who also tortured and murdered several members of his cabinet.
	www.ncaa.org /news/1999/19990830/active/3618n22.html (644 words)

	Rwanda's presidential vote will be test for entire Great Lakes region
		Melchior Ndadaye and his party were victorious, and he became not only the country's first democratically elected president but also its first Hutu head of state.
		Ndadaye took some 65 percent of the vote, beating the Tutsi candidate, outgoing president Pierre Buyoya, who had been tipped to win.
		Ndadaye was assassinated four months later by soldiers from the Tutsi-dominated army, an event that immediately triggered massacres of Tutsis by Hutus, followed swiftly by reprisals by the army.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bp/Qrwanda-vote-greatlakes.RNmc_DaM.html (583 words)

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		The assassination of President Ndadaye initiated a vicious cycle of ethnic killings and led to a massive outflow of refugees.
		In the presidential and legislative campaigns, Buyoya was supported by his party, the former sole ruling party, the National Party for Unity and Progress (UPRONA) and Ndadaye by his party, the Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU), with smaller parties generally allying themselves with UPRONA or FRODEBU based on their ethnic ties.
		The President and Vice President of the National Assembly, the Minister of Territorial Administration, and the head of the Center for Documentation (Intelligence) were also killed in the coup attempt, along with the wife of the Foreign Minister and a family friend.
	archive.cpsr.net /cpsr/privacy/privacy_international/country_reports/1993_us_state_dept_human_rights_guide/burundi.txt (5773 words)

	Burundi: Neglecting Justice In Making Peace - The Need for Justice
		Following the October 1993 assassination of Melchior Ndadaye, the first Hutu to be freely elected president of Burundi, Hutu massacred thousands of Tutsi, often at the direction of local political or administrative leaders.
		The judges who tried persons accused of having assassinated Ndadaye found guilty a number of lower ranking military officers but acquitted others of senior rank or greater political importance.
		One of the four commissions originally established to organize the negotiations is devoted to producing such a description of the nature and history of the conflict.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2000/burundi/Burn004-07.htm (1210 words)

	The Norwegian Council for Africa \| Printer friendly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To mark the anniversary, a ceremony is planned for Tuesday in the capital, Bujumbura, to commemorate his death on October 21, 1993.
		“The hope of peace exists today in Burundi since there is the experience of the sacrifice made by President Melchior Ndadaye and since there is the experience of war,” FDD spokesperson Gelase Daniel Ndabirabe said.
		For the Tutsi minority, meanwhile, haunted by the fear of being exterminated by the Hutu majority, “President Ndadaye’s death served as an excuse to Hutus to launch into the genocide of Tutsis”, Charles Mukasi, president of the hardline wing of the main Tutsi party, the Union for National Progress (Uprona).
	www.afrika.no /noop/page.php?p=Detailed/4233&print=1 (578 words)

	Burundi - The Scoop - DangerFinder
		Hutu Melchior Ndadaye was elected president but assassinated by Tutsi paratroopers four months later.
		For their part, the Hutu rebels that formed the army of the Ndadaye government (and the ex-armed forces of Rwanda and Zaire) are returning to Burundi from their camps and bases in Congo and Tanzania for their revenge.
		Since October 1993-when Burundi's first elected president, Melchior Ndadaye was assassinated-out of the 81 members of the 1993 parliament, 23 have been murdered.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/burundi/scoop.htm (405 words)

	The Third Republic (from Burundi) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There followed the country's first free, democratic election in June 1993, in which Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu, was elected president.
		Ndadaye announced amnesty for many political prisoners and created a carefully balanced government of Hutu and Tusi, including a Tutsi woman, Sylvie Kinigi, as prime minister.
		Ndadaye was assassinated during an attempted military coup in October 1993, which began another long period of interethnic fighting; as many as 150,000 Tutsi were killed in retribution, and perhaps 50,000 additional people were killed in smaller outbreaks.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-93635 (1408 words)

	CNN.com - World News: Election Watch
		Melchior NDADAYE won with 65% of vote, followed by Pierre BUYOYA with 32%.
		Together with the July 4 legislative election and July 29 senatorial election, the vote on the president of the country is the final step in a process intended to end the 12-year civil war in Burundi.
		Civil war broke after Melchior NDADAYE, the country's first democratically elected president, was assassinated in October 1993.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/africa/burundi3.html (329 words)

	Lessons from Rwanda - Lessons for Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The October 1993 attempted coup by the Tutsi-dominated Burundian army during which the democratically elected President Melchior Ndadaye was assassinated provoked mutual killings between both ethnic groups.
		None of those responsible for Ndadaye’s assassination or the subsequent killings was ever brought to justice.
		Cyprien Ntaryamira who was appointed in Ndadaye’s place by the Burundian Parliament was himself killed when President Habyarimana’s aircraft was shot down over Kigali on 6th April 1994.
	www.um.dk /Publikationer/Danida/English/Evaluations/Rwanda/24.asp (1235 words)

	Rwanda Propaganda 14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The presence of Paul Kagame on the scene is a reminder of the anti-Tutsi propagandist claim that Kagame is leading the RPF offensive in order to reestablish a Tutsi monarchy in Rwanda.
		On October 21, 1993, he was assassinated by a Tutsi-led coup, which led to the extermination of an estimated 100,000 Hutu and Hutu sympathizers (i.e., Tutsi moderates).
		Ndadaye?s impalement is a reminder of the Tutsi led violence in Burundi and emphasizes the core theme of Hutu Victimization.
	www.onemancult.com /rwanda/rwandaprop14.html (367 words)

	Burundi's nine years of civil war
		- Oct 21: Burundi's first democratically elected president from the Hutu majority, Melchior Ndadaye, is killed in a coup by elements within the army, dominated by minority Tutsis who had traditionally held power.
		Ndadaye had been in office for just four months.
		- April 6: Ndadaye's successor, Cyprien Ntaryamira, dies along with Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana when the latter's plane is shot down over the Rwandan capital Kigali.
	www.spacedaily.com /2002/021203131412.v91qc5p3.html (714 words)

	OCHA (BURUNDI) FACILITE LE SERVICE INFORMATION
		Le Burundi célébrait hier (21 octobre) le 11e anniversaire de l’assassinat de feu Président Melchior Ndadaye et d’autres milliers de burundais qui ont péri dans les massacres qui ont suivi.
		La population demande que les présumés assassins de feu Melchior Ndadaye soient traduits en justice.
		A celebration in memory of the victims of 1993 and the years that followed is planned for today 22 October in Bubu, Kibimba.
	www.reliefweb.int /ochaburundi/am_brief/bur221004.htm (701 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Death for Burundi assassins
		The Supreme Court in Burundi has sentenced five soldiers to death for the assassination of the country's first democratically-elected president during a coup attempt in 1993.
		The killling of Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu, by hardline Tutsi soldiers led to several years of civil war between the two ethnic groups, in which an estimated 200,000 people died.
		Hutu opposition leaders described the verdicts as a sham, saying that most of the senior officials charged with invovement in the killing had been acquitted.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/344364.stm (385 words)

	Burundi
		The Burundi Democracy Front's candidate, Melchior Ndadaye, won the country's first democratic presidential elections, held on June 2, 1993.
		Ndadaye, the first Hutu to assume power in Burundi, was killed within months during a coup.
		The second Hutu president, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was killed on April 6, 1994, when a plane carrying him and the Rwandan president was shot down.
	www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0107374.html (831 words)

	UN Chronicle: UN responds to coup d'etat, sudden refugee crisis - UN Security Council denounces October 21, 1993 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On 3 November, in resolution 48/17, the General Assembly "unreservedly" condemned the coup, and demanded the immediate restoration of democracy and the constitutional regime in Burundi.
		The Secretary-General was encouraged to consider dispatching a small UN team for fact-finding and advice, with a view to facilitating the efforts of the Government of Burundi and the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
		The General Assembly on 29 October paid tribute to the memory of President Ndadaye, who had addressed the Assembly just 17 days before he was killed, on 4 October.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1309/is_n1_v31/ai_15282813 (628 words)

	Burundi: Justice on trial: Appeal cases
		He was convicted of participation in the massacres of Tutsi civilians which followed the assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye on 21 October 1993.
		Less than four months later, on 21 October 1993, President Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu, and other key members of the government were assassinated by army officers in a coup attempt.
		As news of the assassination of President Ndadaye spread, thousands of Tutsi civilians as well as Hutu supporters of the Union for National Progress, (UPRONA), the former ruling party, were killed in reprisal by Hutu civilians.
	www.amnestyusa.org /regions/africa/document.do?id=5587704F3FD75BB88025690000692F9C (7702 words)

	International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi: Final Report Part 2: Burundi: Truth Commissions: Library and Links: ...
		The elections were won by the FRODEBU candidate, Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu, with 65 percent of the votes.
		While the electoral process was taking place in Burundi, in Rwanda, after a ceasefire agreed by the Government and the RPF in February, negotiations were taking place for the establishment of a bi-ethnic government of national unity.
		Changes were made in the requirements for admission to certain military and police training institutions, creating the fear in the Army that modifications would be made in the process of annual recruitment of soldiers, which was to take place in November, that might weaken or end Tutsi dominance.
	www.usip.org /library/tc/doc/reports/burundi_coi/burundi_coi1996pt2.html (3336 words)

	Burundi Human Rights Practices, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Title: Burundi Human Rights Practices, 1995 Author: U.S. Department of State Date: March 1996 BURUNDI Burundi's first democratically elected government retained power despite the assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye, an ethnic Hutu, in an October 1993 coup attempt, and the death of his successor, Cyprien Ntaryamira, a Hutu, in a suspicious April 1994 plane crash.
		An international commission of inquiry was established to investigate the October 1993 assassination of President Ndadaye and its violent aftermath.
		National/Racial/Ethnic Minorities Burundi's fundamental problem continued to be ethnic conflict between the majority Hutus, who gained political power only with the election of Ndadaye, and the minority Tutsis, who have historically held power and still control the military and dominate educated society.
	www.usemb.se /human/human95/burundi.htm (6481 words)

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