Ethnic massacres in Burundi in 1988 were pogroms of Tutsi minority members by Hutu ethnic group members, followed by large-scale retaliatory massacres of Hutu carried out by the Tutsi-dominated army,

Melchior Ndadaye was a Burundian banker and politician who became the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he attempted to