Frodebu won Burundi's last election in June 1993, but its leader, Melchior Ndadaye, was assassinated after four months in office.

ECONOMIST: Burundi

Since 1993, when Burundi's first elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, was murdered by army officers, 200, 000 people have been killed, estimates the United Nations.

ECONOMIST: Burundi

The assassination of the democratically elected Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye, in 1993, sparked off the war between mostly Hutu rebel movements and the regular army, which is dominated by the Tutsi minority.

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Even when army officers murdered the elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, and then, in 1996, overthrew his successor, the Hutus could do nothing to defend him, let alone start killing on the scale of Rwanda.

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