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Buyoya is currently the African Union’s envoy to the Sahel Image Caption: Mr. Buyoya is currently the African Union’s envoy to the Sahel.
Burundi’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Pierre Buyoya to life imprisonment for participating in the murder of his successor Melchior Ndadaye.
Buyoya, now 70, is currently an African Union envoy to the Sahel. He has not attended the trial, which he described last year as “politically motivated.”
A copy of the sentence seen by the BBC also imposed life sentences on 15 other people, many of them former senior military officials, and a 20-year sentence on former Vice President Bernard Busokoza.
In 2018, the government of Burundi issued an international arrest warrant against Buyoya, who led the country twice (from 1987 to 1993, and again from 1996 to 2003), for the murder of Mr. Ndadaye in 1993.
The anniversary of his death is commemorated every October 21 in Burundi. He was the country’s first democratically elected president and is considered a national hero.
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