Domitien Ndayizeye
Domitien Ndayizeye (born May 2, 1953 in Murago ) was President of Burundi from 2003 to 2005 .
As a member of the Hutu majority, Domitien Ndayizeye was confronted with the oppression of the Tutsi at an early age . This fact made him politically active early on. In 1982 he went into exile in Belgium and completed a degree in engineering.
He then went to Rwanda and only returned to his homeland in 1993, shortly after the election of the first democratically elected Hutu president Melchior Ndadaye . His murder that same year led to a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people and resulted in genocide .
In 1995/96 he was imprisoned, then elected permanent secretary of his party, the Front pour la democratie au Burundi . According to the peace treaty signed in Arusha in 2000, the Tutsi Pierre Buyoya was installed as president and Ndayizeye as vice-president of a transitional government in 2001. According to the agreement, Buyoya cleared the place for Ndayizeye after 18 months. He was sworn in as President of Burundi on April 30, 2003.
His most pressing goals were the stabilization of the country and the pacification of the two warring ethnic groups, the Hutu and Tutsi.
In 2005 he was replaced by Pierre Nkurunziza .
literature
- Domitien Ndayizeye , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 09/2006 of March 4, 2006, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
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| SURNAME | Ndayizeye, Domitien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Burundian politician, President of Burundi (2003-2005) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Murago |