{"slug": "burundi", "label": "Burundi", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q967", "qid": "Q967", "description": "sovereign state in Africa", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1972, 2023], "span_label": ["1972 CE", "2023 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "rwanda", "label": "Rwanda", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "democratic-republic-of-the-congo", "label": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-john-paul-ii", "label": "Pope John Paul II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tanzania", "label": "Tanzania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ivory-coast", "label": "Ivory Coast", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rwandan-genocide", "label": "Rwandan genocide", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 27", "text": "April 27 – Ikiza: Burundi government forces begin a 4-month genocide against the Hutu people, killing 100,000–300,000.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#April", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#September", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1993, "year_label": "1993 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 21", "text": "October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death of president Melchior Ndadaye and sparks the Burundi Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366430372#October", "title": "1993", "revid": 1366430372, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan genocide.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369917016#April", "title": "1994", "revid": 1369917016, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 3", "text": "April 3 – Burundian Civil War: massacres of Hutus by Tutsis in Burundi take place with more than 450 killed within a few days.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#April", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – The Tutsi-led Burundian army performs a coup and reinstalls previous president Pierre Buyoya, ousting current president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#July", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 4", "text": "March 4 – Kivu conflict: Burundi deploys 100 troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help fight insurgencies by militias, including M23.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#March", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › March"}}]}