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	Sylvestre Ntibantunganya - MSN Encarta
		Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, born in 1956, president of Burundi (1994-1996).
		Ntibantunganya’s wife was killed by rebel soldiers during the uprising when she refused to disclose her husband’s whereabouts.
		Ntibantunganya faced escalating ethnic tensions, repeated coup attempts, frequent resignations within his coalition government, and the perpetual threat of the withdrawal of support by the Tutsi-dominated military.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761584088/Sylvestre_Ntibantunganya.html (303 words)

	Sylvestre Ntibantunganya - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sylvestre Ntibantunganya - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		KIGALI, June 11 (IPS) - The exit from hiding of deposed Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya could mark a new phase in the troubled political history of the Central African nation, although it...
		L’ancien Président de la République, le sénateur Sylvestre Ntibantunganya suspendu des organes du parti Sahwanya FRODEBU jeudi 14 juin 2007.
	encarta.msn.com /Sylvestre_Ntibantunganya.html (181 words)

	Burundi president urges countrymen to oppose apparent coup
		Ntibantunganya, 40, was pelted with stones and cow dung Tuesday as he arrived for a funeral for 340 Tutsis, mostly women and children, massacred Saturday by Hutu rebels in Bugendena, in central Burundi.
		Ntibantunganya became president on April 12, 1994, six days after President Cyprien Ntaryamira died with the Rwandan president in a mysterious plane crash -- opening the summer of systematic genocide against Tutsis that killed a half-million in Rwanda.
		Ntibantunganya knows the horrors of ethnic hatred -- his wife was killed in 1993 by rebel troops who had come to arrest him.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/07/24/burundi.html (895 words)

	Ntibantunganya ngo Uburundi Bukeneye Umuyobozi Abarundi Bose Bizeye
		Uwahoze ari umukuru w’igihugu cy’uburundi, Bwana Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, arasanga Uburundi bukeneye umuyobozi abaturage benshi bibonamo, ufite ubushobozi, kandi ufite n’amategeko ahamye atuma ashobora kurangiza inshingano ze neza.
		Naho ku kibazo cyo kumenya niba Bwana Ntibantunganya aziyamamariza umwanya wa perezida wa Repubulika, ngo ishyaka rye rya FRODEBU niribimusaba azabikora.
		Bwana Ntibantunganya yabaye umukuru w’igihugu cy’Uburundi mu mwaka wa 1994 kugeza muri 1996, ubwo yasimburaga Cyprien Ntaryamira wari umaze guhitanwa n’indege ari kumwe na mugezi we w’u Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana, mu ntangiriro z’ukwezi kwa kane muri 1994.
	www.voanews.com /centralafrica/2005-04-26-voa4.cfm?renderforprint=1&textonly=1&&TEXTMODE=1&CFID=3540897&CFTOKEN=42387060 (376 words)

	CNN - Burundi's president seeks refuge at U.S. embassy - July 24, 1996
		Ntibantunganya, 40, was pelted with stones and cow dung Tuesday as he arrived for a funeral for 340 Tutsis, mostly women and children, massacred Saturday by Hutu rebels in Bugendena, in central Burundi.
		Ntibantunganya has been president since April 12, 1994, six days after the death of Cyprien Ntaryamira in a mysterious plane crash with the Rwandan president.
		UPRONA's rejection of Ntibantunganya as president today was the third time the party has tried to change the September 1994 agreement that it and 11 other parties agreed to.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9607/24/burundi (771 words)

	Burundi - Intro - DangerFinder
		Strongman Major Pierre Buyoya became the president of Burundi in a Tutsi military-backed coup in July 1996.
		The Hutu former president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya hotfooted it to the American ambassador's home, a place we remember well from our pleasant lunch.
		Another coincidence is that we also met the new prez (and former major in the army) at a whoop-up in '91 while he was president (from 1987 to 1993).
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/burundi/intro.htm (1188 words)

	SYLVESTRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		"SYLVESTRE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "of the forest", "the wood", "the forest".
		Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was installed to a 4-year presidency on April 8, but the security situation further declined.
		A number of officials of the Government of deposed president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, who fled the country in 1996, did not return.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/SYLVESTRE (556 words)

	CNN - New Burundi leader promises democracy - Jul. 26, 1996
		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.
		At the burial ceremony for the victims, Ntibantunganya was stoned by angry Tutsis and the leader of the main Tutsi political party demanded his removal.
	premium.cnn.com /WORLD/9607/26/un.burundi (845 words)

	CNN - Burundi's president seeks refuge at U.S. embassy - July 24, 1996
		In Washington, however, an administration official said the military was attempting to depose Ntibantunganya and he was expected to flee to Tanzania.
		Ntibantunganya has been president since April 12, 1994, six days after the death of Cyprien Ntaryamira in a mysterious plane crash with the Rwandan president.
		UPRONA's rejection of Ntibantunganya as president today was the third time the party has tried to change the September 1994 agreement that it and 11 other parties agreed to.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9607/24/burundi (771 words)

	CNN - Burundi's president seeks refuge at U.S. embassy - July 24, 1996
		Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya sought refuge Tuesday at the ambassador's residence in the capital city of Bujumbura, amid growing fears that his country is on the brink of a more deadly ethnic conflict.
		A U.S. State Department official in Washington said Ntibantunganya was expected to leave the ambassador's residence and flee to an unknown destination.
		UPRONA's rejection of Ntibantunganya as president Wednesday was the third time the party has tried to change the September 1994 agreement that it and 11 other parties agreed to.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9607/24/burundi.coup (864 words)

	Pierre Buyoya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nearly 150,000 people were killed as the war raged.
		There were numerous attempts at government, but even the coalition government under Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was unable to stop the fighting.
		On July 25, 1996 Buyoya returned to power in a coup, ousting Ntibantunganya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Buyoya (304 words)

	Burundi
		Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, a Hutu, as the new President of the Republic of Burundi.
		Anatole Kanyenkiko, a Tutsi, was reconfirmed as Prime Minister on 3 October 1994, and five days later a new coalition Government, representing 7 of the 13 political parties, was sworn in.
		A fresh outbreak of violence in Bujumbura in June 1995 led to the announcement by President Ntibantunganya of new security measures, but they were rejected by the Parliament with the Front pour la démocratie au Burundi (FRODEBU) majority voting against them.
	www.un.org /Docs/SG/SG-Rpt/ch4d-5.htm (1291 words)

	CNN - Tutsi-led army ousts Burundi president - July 25, 1996
		Ousted President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, a Hutu, vowed he would not resign.
		Ntibantunganya (pronounced En-tee-bahn-toon-gan-yah), 40, was still inside the U.S. ambassador's residence, where he sought refuge Tuesday night as a coup appeared imminent.
		Buyoya, 46, first came to power in a bloodless coup in 1987 and gave the majority Hutus their first real voice in government in 20 years.
	robots.cnn.com /WORLD/9607/25/burundi.coup (763 words)

	Burundi: Update on current situation - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		For Amnesty International the role of the army is evident in the assassination of the Sylvestre Mvutse on 13 May as well as its implication in the incident in which a rocket was fired at a presidential convoy, injuring several people on 1 June 1996.
		In a public address to the population on 14 May 1996, President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya said that the armed forces were either accomplices or incompetent.
		Amnesty International underscores the fact that it is in the very region where Sylvestre Mvutse was killed and the presidential convoy attacked that ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) workers were killed some days ago.
	t2web.amnesty.r3h.net /library/Index/ENGAFR160131996?open&of=ENG-325 (325 words)

	Tutsis attack Burundi's president at mass funeral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, who heads a shaky coalition government with Tutsi Prime Minister Antoine Nduwayo, was not hurt, but his bodyguards hustled him to his helicopter, and he left immediately.
		Tension was high among the more than 1,000 Tutsi mourners, many of them survivors of an attack Saturday by armed fighters who stormed Bugendana camp and hacked screaming women and children to death.
		The Organization of African Unity said Monday it was sending Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to Bujumbura this weekend to urge Burundian authorities to accept an African peacekeeping force.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/07/24/emdburundi.0-1.html (433 words)

	1997 Human Rights Reports: Burundi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was overthrown in a military coup on July 25, 1996.
		A number of officials of the government of deposed president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya fled the country in August 1996, and have not returned.
		Under the 1992 Constitution, deposed president Ntibantunganya was to have remained in office until 1998, when legislative elections had been scheduled.
	www.usemb.se /human/human97/burundi.html (5820 words)

	The Militant - 8/19/96 -- Washington Contemplates Intervention In Burundi
		On July 25 the army seized power in the central African country of Burundi, ousting the elected government and president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
		Meanwhile, the ousted president Ntibantunganya who fled to the U.S. embassy in the capital city of Bujumbura on July 24 remains there.
		The coup is the latest stage of years-long fighting between rival groups vying for power in the interests of competing layers of privileged professionals, wealthy merchants, and other capitalists.
	www.themilitant.com /1996/6029/6029_11.html (1120 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In September 1994, after lengthy negotiations, the major political parties entered into a power-sharing convention and Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was chosen to succeed Ntaryamira in October 1994.
		The situation was finally resolved by a multi-party agreement in September 1994 to form a new coalition, which paved the way for the installation of Ntibantunganya as President in October 1994.
		On June 18, President Ntibantunganya announced a series of "non-state of emergency" measures during a televised speech to reinforce peace, security, and confidence in Burundi.
	historical.disaster.net /sitreps/burun.htm (2980 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) -- Burundi's deposed Hutu president has left the U.S. Embassy where he was holed up for a year, Burundi radio reported Sunday, and will return to public life under the protection of the Tutsi-led military.
		The military regime has agreed to provide Sylvestre Ntibantunganya with an office, transportation and bodyguards, a government official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
		Ntibantunganya fled to the embassy on July 23, fearing for his safety after he was assaulted by a group of Tutsis.
	www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/burundiguaranteessafe.html (251 words)

	NewStandard: 7/25/96
		Ntibantunganya was not resigning, adding: "The most important thing right now is to make sure the population in Burundi will not start killing each other."
		Ntibantunganya's flight and the paratroopers surrounding government buildings, Lt. Col.
		Ntibantunganya would flee Burundi for Tanzania, but Mr.
	www.s-t.com /daily/07-96/07-25-96/a06wn032.htm (393 words)

	Burundi. In: Amnesty International Report 1995 (POL 10/01/95)
		The frodebu interim President of the National Assembly, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, became interim President and power-sharing negotiations began between frodebu and opposition political parties.
		An agreement reached in September included the election of President Ntibantunganya to a four-year term by the National Assembly and the appointment of 45 per cent of government ministers from opposition political parties.
		In November President Ntibantunganya called for an international commission of inquiry into the October 1993 killings as required by the September power-sharing agreement, but no steps were taken to set it up.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/burundi/document.do?id=CF5B18A6A5D3790680256A0F005BB4C4 (2157 words)

	Rwanda
		The priest was a Hum, but this was impossible to tell from his nose or his height, and he said, “I am a member of the human race.” The interahamwe thereupon chopped him into pieces.
		Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, the president of the National Assembly and a Hutu, became the new, interim President of Burundi.
		Ntibantunganya was doing his best to keep the country calm, but he was in a very dangerous position, caught between Hutu and Tutsi extremists, and everyone was waiting for the backlash from Rwanda.
	www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com /pastdispatches/rwanda/printerrwanda.html (6960 words)

	Africanews - 5J
		Rebels of the Revolutionary United Front, engaged in a civil war against successive Sierra Leonean governments since 1991, often wear the clothes of captured government forces and many regular soldiers are thought to have joined the rebels over the course of the war.
		July 23 - A crowd of angry Burundian Tutsis mourning the victims of a weekend massacre drove President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, a Hutu, out of this central town on July 23 under a hail of rocks.
		Ntibantunganya, who had arrived by helicopter, had barely spent a few minutes in the camp where a mass grave has been dug before the mood turned ugly.
	web.peacelink.it /afrinews/5_issue/p10.html (857 words)

	Burundi: USCR Statement/VOA Report
		Last week's ouster of President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya merely completes the creeping coup begun by extremists more than two years ago.
		Statements by OAU leaders continue to recognize Ntibantunganya as president and insist that the new regime in Burundi is totally illegal and must be isolated.
		Buyoya could have demonstrated his moderation and his commitment to democratic principles by refusing to participate in the coup and insisting on the legitimacy of Ntibantunganya's presidency.
	www.africaaction.org /docs96/uscr9608.htm (1826 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		# Pierre Buyoya, Burundi's leader since President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was ousted last month by a military coup, says that his newly-formed transitional government will hold power for three years in spite of sanctions.
		Burundi's new foreign minister, who hs been visiting Brussels and Paris, denied that Ntibantunganya is being kept in Burundi against his will and told a press conference in Paris that Buyoya and Ntibantunganya had discussed arrangements for Ntibantunganya's departure.
		Sources in Bujumbura say that the ousted president was told he could leave on Tuesday night with his wife but on condition that he left from his own residence and not directly from the US Ambassador's home.
	www.pitt.edu /~ginie/news/b8-15.txt (681 words)

	BURUNDI -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Presidents in 1994, Cyprien Ntaryamira from February 7 to April 6 and, acting from April 8 and official from October 1, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya; …
		Presidents in 1996, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya and, from July 25, Pierre Buyoya; prime ministers, Antoine Nduwayo and, from...
		President in 1995, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya; prime ministers, Anatole Kanyenkiko until February 15 and, from February 22,...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9111668 (681 words)

	Internews.org ICTR Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Former president of Burundi Sylvestre Ntibantunganya said Burundians were not surprised by the appointment of Mandela.
		Ntibantunganya said the "unproclaimed but real refusal" of leaders to make progress on peace could be devastating for Burundi, where the economy is going downhill and where the clock is ticking as the government rearms Tutsi youth militias in the wake of recent rebel attacks.
		Former Burundian president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, ousted in a 1996 army coup, accused some participants in the peace talks of "putting a spanner in the works."
	www.internews.org /activities/ictr_reports/ICTRBurundiarchive_1999.html (7691 words)

	ICL - Burundi Index
		With the most recent army coup of Pierre Buyoya (July 1996), the Tutsis again seized power from Hutu government, whose President Ntibantunganya took refuge in the American ambassador's residence.
		Their Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was the last President unter the constitutional order.
		23 July 1996: President Ntibantunganya, trying to visit the scene of a massacre by rebel Hutu army of Léonard Nyangoma (operating from Zaire), was stoned by Tutsi protesters and retreated into the American embassy.
	www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/by__indx.html (309 words)

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