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Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (29 August 1946 – 4 May 2016) was a Burundian army officer and politician who ruled Burundi as president and de facto military dictator from November 1976 to September 1987.
May 4, 2016 · Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, the deposed president of Burundi who invested heavily in infrastructure but persecuted Catholics and did little to make his small, poor and ethnically fractured country...
- Sewell Chan
May 5, 2016 · Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, a former president of Burundi who ruled his small central African nation for 11 years in the 1970s and 1980s, a period bookended by coups and marred by suppression of...
- Emily Langer
May 17, 2016 · Burundi payed its final tribute on Monday to former president, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, who died on May 4 in Brussels at the age of 69.
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Jun 6, 2018 · Jean-Baptiste Bagaza. Died on May 4, 2016 at age 69. The deposed president of Burundi, Mr. Bagaza invested heavily in infrastructure but persecuted Catholics and did little to make his small,...
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, né le 26 août 1946 à Rutovu et mort le 4 mai 2016 à Bruxelles 1, est un officier et homme d'État burundais, président de la république du Burundi de 1976 à 1987.
May 4, 2016 · BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Burundi’s government says former President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza has died in Belgium, where he received medical care for two weeks. Philippe Nzobonariba, a Burundian government spokesman, said Wednesday that “the nation has lost a great figure and tireless worker.”
