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According to the government reports, Nkurunziza suffered a heart attack. Then it kicked out the United Nations human rights office. Young, optimistic and charismatic, he managed to live up to everyone's expectations by uniting people and rebuilding the economy. VideoHuw Edwards: My grandfather, Prisoner of War.
At first, they were accused of undermining public security and the prosecutor asked for a prison term of seven and a half years.But the court changed the charge to “complicity in an attack against the head of state” and gave them 30 years instead.Many Burundians have called it a shame to accuse “simple peasants” of trying to kill the president.The Kayanza governor, Col. Remy Cishahayo, told the AP he didn’t interfere in the case. Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, the government says. "Burundi is an exception because it is a country that has put God first," Mr Nkurunziza's spokesman said in late March. The UN accused him of oppressing the opposition and killing and abducting opponents, accusations vehemently denied by Burundi's government.Despite suspicions that he planned to stay on for a fourth term, he did not stand in elections in May, which were held despite coronavirus.He and his wife Denise, who had five children together and adopted several others, regularly organised prayer gatherings - and the man who was to become Burundi's "supreme guide to patriotism" put all his successes down to God, including what he said the country's success against Covid-19.The official statement announcing the president's death said he was taken ill in the evening after helping out at a volleyball match in Ngozi, northern Burundi, on Saturday.He went to hospital, but appeared to be recovering on Sunday and was able to communicate with the people surrounding him, the government says.Before the civil war, Mr Nkurunziza, who had graduated in sports education, was a teacher and assistant lecturer at the University of Burundi.He survived the killings of 1993 when ethnic Hutus were targeted at the university and joined the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) rebel group.He emerged as its leader and after the 2003 peace deal, Mr Nkurunziza was named minister of interior before parliament elected him president in August 2005.Outside of politics, he was well known for his love of football.