Burundi
sovereign state in Africa
9 dated entries naming Burundi, drawn from 6 separate years between 1972 CE and 2023 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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20th century
- 1972April 27 – Ikiza: Burundi government forces begin a 4-month genocide against the Hutu people, killing 100,000–300,000.source
- 1990September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.source
- 1993October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death of president Melchior Ndadaye and sparks the Burundi Civil War.source
- 1994Tens of thousands of Tutsi Rwandans flee to Zaire, Burundi and Tanzania.source
- 1994April 6 – Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan genocide.source
- 1994April 6 – The airplane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali. This was the major cause for the Rwandan genocide.source
- 1996April 3 – Burundian Civil War: massacres of Hutus by Tutsis in Burundi take place with more than 450 killed within a few days.source
- 1996July 25 – The Tutsi-led Burundian army performs a coup and reinstalls previous president Pierre Buyoya, ousting current president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.source
21st century
Named in the same entries
- Tanzania (2)
- Rwanda (2)
- Rwandan genocide (2)
- Hutu (2)
- Pope John Paul II (1)
- Ivory Coast (1)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
- Zaire (1)