Melchior Ndadaye

Melchior Ndadaye
President Ndadaye in 1993
4th President of Burundi
In office 10 July 1993 – 21 October 1993
Prime Minister	Sylvie Kinigi
Preceded by	Pierre Buyoya
Succeeded by	François Ngeze
Personal details
Born	(1953-03-28)28 March 1953 Nyabihanga, Ruanda-Urundi
Died	21 October 1993(1993-10-21) (aged 40) Bujumbura, Burundi
Manner of death	Assassination
Resting place	Bujumbura
Political party	Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU) Burundi Workers' Party (UBU)
Spouse	Laurence Ndadaye
Alma mater	National University of Rwanda Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
Occupation	Politician, banker

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Melchior Ndadaye (28 March 1953 – 21 October 1993) was a Burundian banker and politician who became the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he attempted to smooth the country's bitter ethnic divide, his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army, and he was assassinated amidst a failed military coup in October 1993, after only three months in office. His assassination sparked an array of brutal tit-for-tat massacres between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups, and ultimately led to the decade-long Burundi Civil War.