| LC control no. | n 87812037 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bagaza, Jean-Baptiste |
| See also | Burundi. President (1976-1987 : Bagaza) |
| Associated country | Burundi |
| Located | Uganda |
| Birth date | 1946-08-26 |
| Death date | 2016-05-04 |
| Place of birth | Rutovu (Burundi) |
| Place of death | Brussels (Belgium) |
| Affiliation | Burundi. Parlement. Sénat École royale des cadets (Belgium) Burundi. Army Burundi. Supreme Revolutionary Council Parti pour le redressement national (Burundi) |
| Profession or occupation | Presidents Armies--Officers |
| Found in | Discours d'ouverture du premier congrès ... 1986?: t.p. (colonel Jean-Baptiste Bagaza) Discours de son excellence le colonel Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, président de la République du Burundi, 1980. Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 29, 2006 (Jean-Baptiste Bagaza; b. 1946; president of Burundi, Nov. 2, 1976-Sept. 3, 1987); viewed May 5, 2016 (Nov. 1, 1976-Sept. 3, 1987) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bagaza, Jean-Baptiste; president; officer personnel; born 1946 in Burundi; studied at École Royale des Cadets in Belgium (1966-1971); appointed adjunct chief of staff for the Burundian army (1972); on 1 November 1976, he overthrew General Michel Micombero; became head of the Supreme Revolutionary Council; restructured the only political party, Union pour le Progrés national (UPRONA; Union for National Progress); the constitution of the Second Republic, adopted by referendum in 1981, resulted in his election to the presidency; Bagaza, was overthrown by Major Pierre Buyoya, on 3 September 1987; he went into exile in Uganda; returned to Burundi following the elections of June 1993; attempted a political return with the creation of Parena (Parti pour le Redressement National); as of 2010 he held a seat for life in the Senate) New York times WWW site, viewed May 5, 2016 (in obituary published May 4: Jean-Baptiste Bagaza; b. Aug. 26, 1946, Rutovu; d. Wednesday morning [May 4, 2016], Brussels, aged 69; deposed president of Burundi who invested heavily in infrastructure but persecuted Catholics and did little to make his small, poor, and ethnically fractured country a stable democracy) |
| Associated language | fre |
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