In April 1994, when she was 9, the news came over the radio that the Hutu president had been killed.

Civil war erupted the following year after Rwanda's moderate Hutu president died in a plane crash.

He was appointed prime minister by the Hutu president in an effort to stop some Tutsis from fighting with his government.

For the past three years, authority was apportioned between a Hutu president and a Tutsi prime minister.

Melchior Ndadaye was democratically elected and became first Hutu president in the country's history.

Burundi's first elected Hutu President was murdered in an abortive 1993 military coup.

In 1993 Burundi's Hutu President was assassinated and within a month over 100,000 civilians were killed.

The victory made him both the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi.

The coup, led by the Tutsi-dominated army, overthrew the Hutu President.

He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election.