Cyprien Ntaryamira
| Cyprien Ntaryamira | |
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| 5th President of Burundi | |
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In office 5 February 1994 – 6 April 1994 |
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| Prime Minister | Anatole Kanyenkiko |
| Preceded by | Sylvie Kinigi (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Sylvestre Ntibantunganya |
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| Born |
6 March 1955 Mubimbi, Bujumbura Rural Province, Burundi |
| Died | 6 April 1994 (aged 39) Kigali, Rwanda |
| Political party | Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU) |
Cyprien Ntaryamira (6 March 1955 – 6 April 1994) was President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his death while he was on Juvénal Habyarimana's plane that was shot down.
Ntaryamira was born in the Mageyo zone's commune of Mubimbi, Bujumbura Rural Province, in what was then the Belgian-dominated United Nations Trust Territory of Burundi. He entered school in Bujumbura, but after an abortive Hutu rebellion in 1972, he and thousands of other ethnic Hutus fled the country.
Ntaryamira eventually received a degree in agriculture from the National University of Rwanda in Butare in 1982. During this time, he became politically active in socialist movements. He returned to his native country in 1983 to work as an agricultural official. He was briefly a political prisoner of the regime of Colonel Jean-Baptiste Bagaza in 1985.
In August 1986, he became a founding member and economic policy director of the Hutu-dominated Front for Democracy in Burundi party (FRODEBU). His party gained power after Burundi's first democratic elections in 1993, ending a long history of rule by the Tutsi minority and the Union for National Progress (UPRONA). The new president, Melchior Ndadaye, appointed Ntaryamira Minister of Agriculture.
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