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Pierre Buyoya, the former president of Burundi who twice seized power in military coups and oversaw a prolonged ethnic civil war that killed 300,000 of his countrymen, has died at 71, the government announced on Friday, 18 December.
Buyoya died just two months after being convicted in absentia by a court in Burundi of the 1993 murder of a successor, a killing that triggered more than a decade of ethnic bloodletting.
“The death of former president Pierre Buyoya is confirmed and there is no more doubt, the head of the information and communications division at the office of Burundi’s President Willy Nyamitwe said in a tweet.