Jean-Paul Harroy
Harroy arrived in Ruanda-Urundi in 1955 and served as the colony's Vice-Governor-General. Following Burundi's formal request for independence on 20 January 1959 and Burundi's first elections took place on 8 September 1961 with UPRONA, a multi-ethnic unity party led by Prince Louis Rwagasore winning just over 80% of the electorate's votes. In the wake of the elections, on 13 October, the 29-year-old prince was assassinated, robbing Burundi of its most popular and well-known nationalist. The assassination was planned by members of the pro-Belgian Christian Democratic Party (PDC) whose European secretary, Ms. Belva was allegedly were told by the Belgian Regent, Roberto Régnier, that "Rwagasore must be killed" (although Harroy never mentioned this in his account of events). In addition, severa
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Jean-Paul Harroy
Harroy arrived in Ruanda-Urundi in 1955 and served as the colony's Vice-Governor-General. Following Burundi's formal request for independence on 20 January 1959 and Burundi's first elections took place on 8 September 1961 with UPRONA, a multi-ethnic unity party led by Prince Louis Rwagasore winning just over 80% of the electorate's votes. In the wake of the elections, on 13 October, the 29-year-old prince was assassinated, robbing Burundi of its most popular and well-known nationalist. The assassination was planned by members of the pro-Belgian Christian Democratic Party (PDC) whose European secretary, Ms. Belva was allegedly were told by the Belgian Regent, Roberto Régnier, that "Rwagasore must be killed" (although Harroy never mentioned this in his account of events). In addition, severa
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Jean-Paul, Jules, Elisée Dugno ...... gouverneur von Belgisch-Kongo.
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Jean-Paul Harroy, né Jean-Paul ...... neur général du Ruanda-Urundi.
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Jean-Paul, Jules, Elisée Dugno ...... gouverneur von Belgisch-Kongo.
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