Burundi profile - Timeline - BBC News

1959-1961 - Independence drive led by cross-communal UPRONA party of Prince Louis Rwagasore, which wins 1961 legislative elections. Prince Louis becomes prime minister of Ruanda-Urundi but is assassinated shortly afterwards. (NOTE Rwagasore was Prime minister of only Burundi. Though the Ruanda-Urundi territory was under the same colonial administration with a resident general, each country had its own local administration topped by the King as Head of state. Ruanda had its own King, and Burundi had its own).

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