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Burundian politician
Eustache Ngabisha (d. 1972 in
Ngozi, Burundi )
[1] was a
Burundian politician, and the father of Burundian president
Pierre Nkurunziza .
[2]
Ngabisha, who was
Hutu and
Roman Catholic ,
[3] was an associate of
Louis Rwagasore in the early 1960s,
[4] and subsequently became involved in politics, joining
UPRONA .
[3]
In 1965, he was elected to a term in the
Parliament of Burundi ,
[5] and later served as governor of
Ngozi Province and
Kayanza Province
[5] (also described as the "director" of
Kabezi , and the "commissioner of the district (Ngozi-Kayanza)").
[3]
During the
1972 genocide in Burundi , Ngabisha was imprisoned in Ngozi, and subsequently strangled in his cell with his own
necktie .
[1]
References
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b
Burundi : qu’est-ce qui fait courir Nkurunziza ? , by Olivier Caslin, in
Jeune Afrique ; published June 17, 2015; updated September 22, 2015; retrieved June 10, 2020
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The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa , by Michael Amoah; published January 31, 2019, by
Bloomsbury Publishing
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a
b
c
"Pierre Nkurunziza" , by Christine Deslaurier, in the Dictionary of African Biography ; edited by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and
Henry Louis Gates ; published February 2, 2012, by
OUP USA
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Nkurunziza, de la révolte au pouvoir , by Marie Cros, in
La Libre Belgique ; published August 19, 2005; retrieved June 10,2020
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a
b
Burundi , by Barry Turner, in
The Statesman's Yearbook 2008