Cyprien Ntaryamira

Cyprien Ntaryamira (March 6, 1955 - April 6, 1994), was President of Burundi from February 5, 1994 until he died in a plane crash April 6, 1994. Image File history File links http://www. ... Image File history File links http://www. ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

Ntaryamira was born in the Mageyo zone, commune of Mubimbi, province of Rural Bujumbura, in what was then the Belgian-dominated United Nations Trust Territory of Burundi. He entered school in Bujumbura but after an abortive Hutu rebellion in 1972, he and thousands of other ethnic Hutus fled the country. The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ... Bujumbura, estimated population 300,000 (1994), is the capital of Burundi. ... Hutu is the name given to one of the three ethnic groups occupying Burundi and Rwanda. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

Ntaryamira eventually receive a degree in agriculture from the National University of Rwanda in Kigali in 1982. During this time, he became politically active in socialist movements. He returned to his native country in 1983 to work as an agricultural official. He was a political prisoner of the regime of Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza briefly in 1985. Kigali, population 330,000 (1997), is the capital city of Rwanda and its largest city, lying in the centre of the nation. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A political prisoner is anyone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image are deemed by a government to either challenge or threaten the authority of the state. ... Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (b. ... This article is about the year. ...

In August 1986 he became a founding member and economic policy director of the Hutu-dominated Front for Democracy in Burundi party (FRODEBU). FRODEBU gained power after Burundi's first democratic elections in 1993, ending a long history of rule by the Tutsi minority and the Union for National Progress (UPRONA). New president Melchior Ndadaye appointed Ntaryamira Minister of Agriculture. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Front for the Democracy in Burundi (Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi, Frodebu) is a political party in Burundi. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... See also The Watusi, a dance, and Watusi (band). ... The Union for National Progress (Unité pour le Progrès national, UPRONA) is a nationalist political party in Burundi, receiving most of its support from members of the Tutsi ethnic group. ... Melchior Ndadaye Melchior Ndadaye (March 28, 1953 – October 21, 1993) was the first elected president of Burundi. ...

In October 1993, however, Ndadaye and his two top officials were assassinated, sparking parliamentary deadlock and civil war. Nteryamira was selected president on February 5, 1994 as a compromise; he was Hutu but considered a moderate in Ndadaye's tradition, while Anatole Kanyenkiko, a UPRONA figure, was made prime minister. October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Burundi Civil War is driven by ethnic rivalries between Burundis Hutu and Tutsi tribal factions. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

The respite would be brief, as the airplane carrying Ntaryamira and Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana, a fellow Hutu, crashed under suspicious circumstances while landing at the Rwandan capital of Kigali, killing both. The deaths touched off the Rwandan Genocide. Juvénal Habyarimana Juvénal Habyarimana (March 8, 1937 - April 6, 1994) was president of Rwanda from 1973 until his death in a plane crash in 1994, which marked the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. ... In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... Kigali, population 330,000 (1997), is the capital city of Rwanda and its largest city, lying in the centre of the nation. ... The skulls of victims show gashes and signs of violence The Rwandan Genocide was the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus by a group of Hutu extremists known as Interahamwe during a period of 100 days in 1994. ...

On April 8 power was passed to Ntaryamira's longtime associate Sylvestre Ntiybantunganya, president of the national assembly. April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... Sylvestre Ntibantunganya (born 1956) is a Burundi politician. ...

References

• À la Mémoire de FEU S.E. Cyprien Ntaryamira (in French)