After decades of military dictatorships, the parliamentary and presidential elections of June and July 1993 were the first ones in Burundi to be free and fair. FRODEBU decisively defeated the largely Tutsi Union for National Progress (Union pour le …

The following lists events that happened during 1994 in Burundi. April 6 - The airplane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali. This was the major …

Jan 1, 1994 · In February Burundi acceded to the UN Convention against Torture. At the start of the year a multi-party electoral process began, raising hopes of an end to massive human rights violations which had been committed during 28 years of one-party military rule.

The presidents of the African states of Rwanda and Burundi are killed in a plane crash believed to have been caused by rocket fire.

May 16, 1994 · Burundi: Time for international action to end a cycle of mass murder. This report contains a detailed account of the killings which followed the attempted coup of October 1993.

By 1994 Tutsis lived in the provincial capitals and in camps for displaced persons, under Army protection. In most communes, only Hutus remained in the countryside. Hutus who still live in the ...

Starting in April 1994, within a three-month period, more than 800,000 Rwandans were murdered because of their ethnic identity. Women were systematically raped, in many cases right in front of their children.

Burundi began 1994 still reeling from months of violence that had followed the assassination of its first democratically elected president the previous October. In the last two months of 1993...

Apr 28, 1998 · In 1994, the genocide of a million Tutsi by the Rwandan government and militia turned the spotlight on to neighbouring Burundi, which, because of similarities in history and ethnic make-up, seemed destined to suffer the same fate.

Civil War in Burundi 1993-1994. Against a historical background of decades-long ethnic hatred and major outbreaks of strife, Burundi's Hutu and Tutsi tribal factions plunged into another bloody power struggle in October 1993.