A report on Burundi and Pierre Buyoya

The Burundian Civil War was a civil war in Burundi lasting from 1993 to 2005.

The last of the coups was in 1987 and installed Tutsi officer Pierre Buyoya.

Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (29 August 19464 May 2016) was a Burundian army officer and politician who ruled Burundi as president and de facto military dictator from November 1976 to September 1987.

A military coup broke out in September 1987, led by Major Pierre Buyoya, while Bagaza was abroad in Quebec, Canada.

The 1996 Burundian coup d'état was a military coup d'état that took place in Burundi on 25 July 1996.

In the midst of the Burundi Civil War, former president Pierre Buyoya (a Tutsi) deposed Hutu President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.

The 1987 Burundian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup that took place in Burundi on 3 September 1987.

Tutsi president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed whilst traveling abroad and succeeded by Tutsi Major Pierre Buyoya.

Domitien Ndayizeye (born 2 May 1953) is a Burundian politician who was President of Burundi from 2003 to 2005.

He succeeded Pierre Buyoya, as president on 30 April 2003, after serving as Buyoya's vice president for 18 months.

Melchior Ndadaye (28 March 1953 – 21 October 1993) was a Burundian intellectual and politician.

That year Burundi became beset by ethnic violence, and on 23 October he criticised the government of President Pierre Buyoya in a meeting called by the governor of Gitega Province.

Sylvestre Ntibantunganya (born 8 May 1956) is a Burundian politician.

In 1988, President Pierre Buyoya decreed the creation of a 24-person commission to study ethnic divisions in Burundi and create a plan for national unity.

The 1976 Burundian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup that took place in Burundi on 1 November 1976.

Such measures proved disastrous for Bagaza, as the Tutsi elite and military did not approve of the loss of jobs, income and patronage, as a result of which he was overthrown on 3 September 1987 in a bloodless military coup, led by Major Pierre Buyoya.

The Senate is the upper chamber of Parliament in Burundi.

Four former heads of state - Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (PARENA), Pierre Buyoya (UPRONA), Sylvestre Ntibantunganya (FRODEBU), and the current transitional president Domitien Ndayizeye (FRODEBU) will occupy seats in the Senate along with three Twa members.

They are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ethnic group Hutu and the Pygmy group of the Twa).

Pierre Buyoya