Product Description
SCWPM.#37A - TBB.#B224a - Date: 05-02-1995Grade: Unc - Signature: 16 - Prefix: R
Description: Colour: Dark blue and multicolor. - Front: President Melchior Ndadaye. - Back: Palm tree; BRB building in Bujumbura; coat of arms. - Solid security thread. - Watermark: Michel Micombero. - Printer: Thomas de La Rue, United Kingdom. (TDLR). - Size: 160 x 73 mm. - Material: Paper.
General information:
Melchior Ndadaye (March 28, 1953 – October 21, 1993) was a Burundian intellectual and politician. He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he moved to attempt to smooth the country's bitter ethnic divide, his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army, and he was assassinated amidst a failed military coup in October 1993, after only three months in office. His assassination sparked an array of brutal tit-for-tat massacres between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups, and ultimately sparked the decade-long Burundi Civil War.
