Pascal Bubiriza

Pascal Bubiriza

Burundian Ambassador to the United States of Burundi to United States
In office 000000001962-10-18-0000October 18, 1962 – 000000001963-12-13-0000December 13, 1963
Succeeded by	Leon Ndenzako
Ambassador of Burundi to Ethiopia
In office 000000001965-05-01-0000May 1965 – 000000001967-01-01-00001967
Burundian Minister of Interior
In office 000000001963-06-01-0000June 1963 – 000000001964-03-01-0000March 1964
Succeeded by	July 15, 1972 – June 5, 1973: Albert Shibura
Ambassador of Burundi to Soviet Union
In office 000000001965-05-01-0000May 1965 – 000000001967-01-01-00001967
Preceded by	Joseph Mahenehene
Succeeded by	François Kisukurume
Ministre de la Communication et de l'information, Porte-parole du gouvernement
In office 000000001969-01-01-00001969 – 000000001972-04-30-0000April 30, 1972
Succeeded by	2001–2003: fr:Albert Mbonerane 000000002005-08-30-0000August 30, 2005: Karenga Ramadhani 2005 – 2007: Hafsa Mossi January 2009: Vénérand Bakevyumusaya.
Personal details
Born	000000001932-11-20-0000November 20, 1932 Commune of Rugazi, Muhinga Province^[1]
Died	April 30, 1972(1972-04-30) (aged 39)
Education	secondary school, he studied at a Catholic seminary Troupe Scolaire d'Astrida the 1929 created Educational Centre in Butare (Ruanda).

Pascal Bubiriza was a Burundian Hutu diplomat, minister of interior and minister of communication.

Career

From 1954 to 1961 he was employed in judiciary and local administration.
From 20 October 1961 to 1 July 1962 he was chef de Cabinet in the government of André Muhirwa
In 1962 he was designated Burundian Ambassador to the United States and was the first Permanent Representative to the Headquarters of the United Nations.
From June 1963 to March 1964 he was Minister of Interior, Security, Immigration and State Administration.
From April 1964 to May 1965 he was ambassador in the Foreign Ministry.
From May 1965 to 1967 he was ambassador in Addis Ababa Ethiopia and was accreditated as representative to the Organisation of African Unity and as ambassador to the government in Khartoum (Sudan)
From 1967 to 1969 he was ambassador in Moscow.
In 1969 he was designated Minister of Communication.

Assassination

On April 29, 1972 Michel Micombero reshuffled his Cabinet.
The four Hutu ministers in the Burundian government were arrested, tortured, and executed.
Michel Micombero linked Pascal Bubiriza, Minister of Communications, with a bank robbery.
On June 9, 1972 Michel Micombero told Marvine Henrietta Howe correspondent from The New York Times, that a bank in Nyanza Lac had been broken into and that four million Burundian franc (approximately $40,000) had been stolen by Martin Kasongo.
The Burundian government claimed that the stolen funds had been found in the home of Bubiriza. It was alleged that he was using them, to purchase machetes for the rebels, and the government claimed that some machetes had already been distributed to the Hutu tribesmen and were used in the slaughter of the Tutsi.
The other government officials accused and executed were Chrysostome Bandyambona, Minister of Social Affairs, who was charged with having gone into the interior to incite the Hutu to rebel against the Tutsi; Joseph Baragengana, Minister of the Fonction Publique (Civil Service), accused of having recruited foreign mercenaries; and Marc Ndayiziga, Minister of Public Works, who had cut short a trip to Brussels to fly back to Burundi when the news broke of disorders there. Shortly after his arrival Mr. Ndayiziga was arrested and accused of having joined with Mr. Bubiriza in buying machetes with the allegedly stolen money.
A fifth Hutu notable, Commandant Martin Ndahoze, former Minister of the Economy, also was arrested, tortured and executed. The charge was having in his home documents involving him in the alleged conspiracy against the government.
Burundian authorities asserted Mobutu Sese Seko that militians of Pierre Mulele were involved in the uprising in Burundi and made him sending troops to the Burundian conflict. The Zairian troops withdraw scarcely one week after they had arrived, while large-scale killings were still going on in Burundi. The presence of Zairian troops in Bujumbura freed Military of Burundi for the job of liquidating the Hutu leadership, and dissuaded Rwandan leaders from any plan to go to the aid of their Hutu brothers in Burundi.
On this occasion Michel Micombero arranged the assassination of Ntare V of Burundi.
The government controlled manner of the Assassination of Pascal Bubiriza indicates that the racial oriented masacre in 1972 was a racial war of the burunidan government against the mayority of the People of Burundi, the first part of the Burundian genocides.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Raph Uwechue, Makers of Modern Africa, p. 134
↑ Éditeur. "SOUVENIRS POIGNANTS D'ENFANCE SUR L'HECATOMBE DE 1972 AU BURUNDI. - burundibwiza.com".
↑ "New Times". Newspaper "Trud". 1 July 1967 – via Google Books.

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