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Burundi commemorates anniversary of death of former president on eve of Rwandan genocide

Source: Xinhua   2018-04-06 22:05:17

BUJUMBURA, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Burundian citizens on Friday remembered the death of former Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, killed along with former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana in a plane crash on April 6, 1994.

The tragedy swiftly triggered the months-long Rwandan genocide that claimed about one million lives, mostly ethnic Tutsis.

Burundian country leaders including Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza as well as the family of Ntaryamira attended a church service in the capital city of Bujumbura to commemorate the late president, who died at the age of 39.

Ntaryamira was a farming engineer and ruled Burundi for only two months after being sworn in as the president of the transition government.

They then went to Bujumbura's Democracy Martyrs' Palace where Nkurunziza and his wife, the family of the late Ntaryamira, representatives of diplomatic corps and representatives of political parties laid wreaths of flowers on Ntaryamira's tomb.

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Burundi commemorates anniversary of death of former president on eve of Rwandan genocide

Source: Xinhua 2018-04-06 22:05:17

BUJUMBURA, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Burundian citizens on Friday remembered the death of former Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, killed along with former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana in a plane crash on April 6, 1994.

The tragedy swiftly triggered the months-long Rwandan genocide that claimed about one million lives, mostly ethnic Tutsis.

Burundian country leaders including Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza as well as the family of Ntaryamira attended a church service in the capital city of Bujumbura to commemorate the late president, who died at the age of 39.

Ntaryamira was a farming engineer and ruled Burundi for only two months after being sworn in as the president of the transition government.

They then went to Bujumbura's Democracy Martyrs' Palace where Nkurunziza and his wife, the family of the late Ntaryamira, representatives of diplomatic corps and representatives of political parties laid wreaths of flowers on Ntaryamira's tomb.

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