Commemoration of the Assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye في 🇧🇮 بوروندي

Burundi commemorates the Assassination of President Ndadaye on October 21st; the 1993 killing of Melchior Ndadaye, the first democratically elected president, triggered Burundi's devastating civil war of the 1990s.

Burundian national holiday on October 21 commemorating President Melchior Ndadaye, Burundi's first democratically elected president, who was assassinated in a military coup in 1993.