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	Buyoya, Pierre - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Buyoya, Pierre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A member of the Tutsi ethnic group, Buyoya promised fairer treatment for the Hutu majority.
		A coup in 1992 led by the former foreign minister failed.
		Buyoya continued to press for greater democracy, and this led to the elections that brought to power Burundi's first Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Buyoya,+Pierre (149 words)

	Pierre Buyoya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In September of 1987, Buyoya led a military coup against the Second Republic of Burundi, led by Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, and installed himself as the first president of the Third Republic.
		Economic sanctions were also imposed by the international community because of the nature of Buyoya's return to power, but were eased as Buyoya created an ethnically inclusive government.
		Some suspect that Buyoya is responsible for the October 21, 1993 assassination of Melchior Ndadaye.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Buyoya (370 words)

	CNN - New Burundi leader promises democracy - Jul. 26, 1996
		Buyoya, speaking during his first press conference since he took power in a Tutsi-led military coup Thursday, urged the international community to refrain from military intervention.
		Buyoya held out an olive branch to former President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, who is a Hutu, promising reconciliation and a return to democracy.
		Buyoya said Thursday that Ntibantunganya could safely leave his refuge at the U.S. ambassador's residence, and invited him participate in the effort to rebuild the country.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9607/26/un.burundi (845 words)

	IRI : Around The Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The embargo was lifted in January 1999 after Buyoya agreed to a power—sharing agreement in the National Assembly and began negotiations for a peace settlement with opposing parties and armed opposition groups.
		Buyoya and the National Assembly agreed on a transitional constitution, which enacted a large number of reforms including the creation of a constitutional court, two vice-presidencies and an enlarged National Assembly.
		Buyoya will remain as president with a Hutu vice-president until May 2003, and will be succeeded thereafter by current Vice President Ndayizeye with a Tutsi vice-president for another 18-month term.
	www.iri.org /countries.asp?id=0000000033 (836 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Burundi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Buyoya, with the support of moderate elements within the Tutsi-dominated military, sought to negotiate an end to the civil unrest in Burundi and establish a framework for redressing the fundamental ethnic inequities within the political arena.
		Buyoya served as President of the Transitional Government for the first 18 months and then handed executive authority over to his Hutu Vice President, Domitien Ndayizeye, on April 30, 2003, for the remaining 18 months of the transitional term.
		In Buyoya's most recent attempt to work with FRODEBU to resolve the civil war that has claimed more than 200,000 lives in the past decade, the Government and the legal Hutu opposition agreed on the composition of a new transitional government.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Bui1.htm (1447 words)

	Burundi's strongman calls self `true democrat' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Buyoya, a retired Army major, previously overthrew the government in 1987 and ruled by junta until 1993.
		The USAID grants to Buyoya's "Foundation for Unity, Peace and Democracy" began with $2,500 to send him as an election observer to South Africa in April 1994.
		Buyoya appealed to Ntibantunganya, at the U.S. ambassador's home, as well as scores of other senior Hutu leaders hiding at embassies and private homes around town to go home.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/07/27/burundi-folo.2-0.html (634 words)

	Burundi - The Peace Process & Security in the Region: Events: U.S. Institute of Peace
		His objectives, Buyoya notes, were the restoration of peace, security, and state authority, the eradication of genocide ideology, and the organization of a national debate on important national issues including dialogue with armed paramilitary and other groups fighting the government.
		President Buyoya counts as one of his greatest challenges the negotiation of a cease-fire, characterizing the peace deal negotiated without the cease-fire as "very peculiar." His transitional government, he says, "will spare no effort to get the rebels to the negotiating table." Buyoya intends to utilize the Arusha Agreement as a tool in the process.
		Buyoya responded that there has been a relative lack of international "human resources" of the numbers seen in the Balkans and Afghanistan, and that in Africa, only representatives are sent to attend conferences.
	www.usip.org /events/2002/es20020215.html (1119 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Officers Attempt Coup in Burundi
		But within hours, forces loyal to President Pierre Buyoya surrounded the plotters, and a government spokesman said they were surrendering.
		Buyoya, a member of the ethnic Tutsi minority that dominates the government and military, was across the continent at the time, attending peace talks in Gabon with ethnic Hutu rebel leaders in a bid to end a war in Burundi that has claimed as many as 200,000 lives since 1993.
		Buyoya, 51, has frequently appeared politically vulnerable since coming to power in a bloodless coup d'etat in 1996 that toppled a Hutu government.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A34864-2001Apr18?language=printer (615 words)

	Ugandan urges peacekeepers in Burundi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Pierre Buyoya, installed in a military coup last week, has vowed to succeed in Burundi where his predecessor, a Hutu, failed.
		But that has not deterred Buyoya, who invited foreign diplomats to a hotel in the capital, Bujumbura, on Monday to try to convince them of his good intentions and ability to halt the fighting that has claimed 150,000 lives in three years.
		Buyoya also traveled Tuesday to northern Tanzania, where he met with Julius Nyerere, a former Tanzanian president who has tried to mediate a peace deal between the warring Tutsi and Hutu factions.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/07/31/burundi.html (481 words)

	Burundi
		In Sept. 1987 Bagaza was overthrown by Maj. Pierre Buyoya, who became president.
		Buyoya, however, began reforms to heal the country's ethnic rift.
		In Aug. 2005, former Hutu rebel leader Pierre Nkurunziza was elected president by Parliament.
	www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0107374.html (831 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Burundi's Buyoya says talks with rebels make 'significant progress'
		While in South Africa, the Burundian president held talks with Pierre Nkurunziza, the leader of the largest wing of the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD), as well as with Jean-Bosco Ndayikengurukiye and Alain Mugabarabona, who head smaller wings of the FDD and the National Liberation Forces (FNL) respectively.
		Buyoya's talks with Nkurinziza led to a timetable for further technical talks related to a ceasefire signed early in December, but which has yet put an end to fighting on the ground.
		Buyoya also called for observers and the first batch of troops deployed by the African Union to head to Burundi as soon as possible.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/57efb49668a5b87f49256cbe000f478e (270 words)

	The Third Republic (from Burundi) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The crisis in church-state relations was the critical factor behind Major Pierre Buyoya's decision to overthrow the Second Republic in September 1987 and proclaim the advent of the Third Republic.
		Under Buyoya, the new Tutsi-Hima president, Burundi was ruled by a 30-member military junta, the Military Committee for National Salvation.
		Buyoya's apparent progressive leadership led to the adoption of a new constitution in March 1992, which prohibited political organizations that adhered to “tribalism, divisionalism, or violence” and stipulated that all political parties must include both Hutu and Tutsi representatives.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-93635 (1414 words)

	SA celebrates Burundi's peace - SouthAfrica.info
		The country's new president, Pierre Nkurunziza, is the first democratically elected leader since the assassination of Melchoir Ndadaye in 1993.
		Former leader Pierre Buyoya, who had seized power in a 1987 coup, again stepped in to take control of the country.
		Buyoya then established a commission to foster better relations between the groups within the country, which eventually led to the drafting of a new constitution and the 1993 elections.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/news/african_union/burundi2508.htm (1092 words)

	CNN.com - Burundi coup foiled, government says - April 18, 2001
		Buyoya was in neighboring Gabon for peace talks with the leader of the main rebel group fighting the government in Burundi's 7 1/2-year civil war.
		Buyoya, a Tutsi, took power in a coup in July 1996, promising to end the civil war.
		Buyoya was expected to return to Burundi on Thursday.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/04/18/burundi.unrest.02 (749 words)

	Internews.org ICTR Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Burundian President Pierre Buyoya is scheduled to arrive in the Tanzanian capital Dodoma on Thursday for talks with President Benjamin Mkapa.
		Buyoya, a Tutsi, will be sworn in tomorrow as president for the first 18 months of a three-year transitional period brokered by Nelson Mandela, former South African president and mediator of the Burundi peace process.
		The installation date of the transitional president, Pierre Buyoya, was set during a summit for regional leaders in Arusha on 23 July.
	www.internews.org /activities/ICTR_reports/ICTRBurundi.html (11415 words)

	History of Burundi
		In 1987, Maj. Pierre Buyoya overthrew Colonel Bagaza.
		Buyoya formed a commission to investigate the causes of the 1988 unrest and to develop a charter for democratic reform.
		An internationally brokered power-sharing agreement between the Tutsi-dominated government and the Hutu rebels in 2003 paved the way for a transition process that led to an integrated defense force, established a new constitution in October 2004, and elected a majority Hutu government in 2005.
	infotut.com /geography/Burundi (761 words)

	afrol News - Your Portal to Africa!
		Buyoya told journalists at a specially convened media briefing in Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre that rebels were demanding he release all political prisoners before they discuss signing an existing peace accord to end seven-years of civil war.
		Buyoya did not comment directly on reports that he met Jean Minani, leader of Burundi's main Hutu opposition party, the Front for Democracy (Frodebu), in Malawi on Thursday.
		Buyoya insisted on Friday that the rebels come to the negotiating table without pre-conditions, so that concerns by all other parties could be addressed simultaneously.
	www.afrol.com /html/News/bur009_rebel_prisoners.htm (572 words)

	www.hirondelle.org : Burundi - Peace talks - 2001 - Archives
		Buyoya (Tutsi) is to lead the first half of the transition, with Domitien Ndayizeye of the main opposition party FRODEBU (pro-Hutu) as vice-president.
		Burundi president Pierre Buyoya is in Arusha for the summit, along with the presidents of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, the vice-presidents of South Africa and Zambia, the Prime Minister of Rwanda, and the foreign minister of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
		Presidents Pierre Buyoya of Burundi, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Daniel arap Moi of Kenya are expected on Sunday, according to Facilitator's Representative Judge Bomani.
	www.hirondelle.org /hirondelle.nsf/caefd9edd48f5826c12564cf004f793d/b2e6466fb8cf3450c1256b4900720ae6?OpenDocument (16974 words)

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	uk.encarta.msn.com /Henry_Pierre.html (133 words)

	Burundi
		Burundi is ruled by an authoritarian military regime led by self-proclaimed interim President Pierre Buyoya, who was brought to power in a bloodless coup by the largely ethnic Tutsi armed forces in 1996 and who abrogated the Constitution.
		Buyoya holds power in conjunction with a political power structure dominated by members of the Tutsi ethnic group.
		Despite Buyoya's stated commitment to end abuses by the military, numerous abuses were committed and perpetrators were not punished.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/af/index.cfm?docid=703 (8983 words)

	Committee on Conscience \| Alert \| Burundi \| Current Situation
		Pierre Nkurunziza, a Hutu from the CNDD-FDD party (Conseil national pour la defense de la democratie-Forces pour la defense de la democratie, formerly a rebel group) was elected president.
		Nkurunziza's government is credited with improving the human rights situation, particularly in areas where they are strong, but abuses have still been reported in areas where other political parties or the FNL (Front national de libération), a rebel group that continues to fight, have support.
		The previous president and Ndadaye’s electoral opponent, Pierre Buyoya, paved the way for a democratic transition by liberalizing Burundi’s electoral process and immediately recognizing the results.
	www.ushmm.org /conscience/alert/burundi/contents/02-current (1057 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Burundi peace deal hailed
		Burundi's President Pierre Buyoya has praised a ceasefire agreement signed between his government and the country's main rebel group.
		Burundi's President Pierre Buyoya told the French news agency AFP that the FDD leader, Pierre Nkurunziza had signed the ceasefire document in the early hours of Tuesday.
		Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya is due to be replaced by Hutu Vice President Domitien Ndayizeye on 1 May 2003.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/2536097.stm (565 words)

	Burundi
		Until November when a transitional government was inaugurated, Burundi was ruled by an authoritarian military regime led by self-proclaimed interim President Pierre Buyoya, who was brought to power in a bloodless coup by the largely ethnic Tutsi armed forces in 1996 and who abrogated the Constitution.
		Buyoya was sworn in as president, and Domitien Ndayizeye, the secretary general of FRODEBU, was sworn in as vice president on November 1.
		According to the terms of the agreement, on November 1, Buyoya was sworn in as president and Domitien Ndayizeye, the secretary general of FRODEBU, was sworn in as vice president.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8280.htm (11179 words)

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