Burundi ex-president gets life for murder

Updated October 21 2020 - 10:41am, first published 10:38am
Burundi's former president Pierre Buyoya has been sentenced to life in prison.
Burundi's former president Pierre Buyoya has been sentenced to life in prison.

Burundi's top court has sentenced a former president to life in prison for the 1993 murder of another president who defeated him in elections, an attack that triggered a 10-year civil war that claimed 300,000 lives.

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