Mwami Mwambutsa IV's perceived interference in government by Hutu leaders
Organised by
Antoine Serukwavu
Participants
Faction within the gendarmerie and army
Outcome
Coup fails
Mwambutsa IV remains on the throne but moves into exile
86 alleged conspirators executed
Several thousand civilians killed in ethnic violence
History of Burundi
Emblem of Burundi
Urewe civilisation
Hutu, Tutsi and Twa origins
Kingdom of Burundi
German East Africa
1891–1919
Ruanda-Urundi
1922–1962
Ruzagayura famine
1943–1944
Road to independence
Parliamentary election
1961
Prince Rwagasore assassination
1961
Independence
1962
Burundi 1962–present
Army coup attempt
1965
Ndizeye coup
Jul 1966
Micombero coup
Nov 1966
Genocidal killings of Hutus
1972
Bagaza coup
1976
Buyoya coup, 1st
1987
Burundian Civil War
Army coup attempt
1993
Genocidal killings of Tutsis
1993
Buyoya coup, 2nd
1996
Titanic Express massacre
2000
Army coup attempt
2001
Itaba massacre
2002
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1998–2003
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2015–2018
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2015
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An attempted coup d'etat in Burundi took place between 18–19 October 1965, when a group of ethnic Hutu officers from the Burundian military and gendarmerie attempted to overthrow Burundi's government. The rebels were frustrated with Burundi's monarch, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, who had repeatedly attempted to cement his control over the government and bypassed parliamentary norms despite Hutu electoral gains. Although the prime minister was shot and wounded, the coup failed due to the intervention of a contingent of troops led by Captain Michel Micombero.
The attempted coup d'état provoked a backlash against Hutus in which thousands of people, including the participants in the coup, were killed. The coup also facilitated a militant Tutsi backlash against the monarchy resulting in two further coups which culminated in the abolition of the monarchy in November 1966 and the proclamation of a republic with Micombero as President of Burundi.
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