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Melchior Ndadaye
Melchior Ndadaye (March 28, 1953 – October 21, 1993) was the first elected president of Burundi.
Ndadaye, a member of the Hutu ethnic group, was elected in June 1993, in Burundi's first democratic elections. He was kidnapped and killed less than four months later as part of a coup d'etat by Tutsi military members. His killing was the event that triggered the beginning of the Burundi Civil War.
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