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“But the winner and the loser are all Barundi, members of the same national family, children of one Mwami.”
Source: Speech after UPRONA's victory in the legislative elections, 19 September 1961
Context Spoken the day after his party UPRONA won Burundi's pre-independence legislative elections; he was assassinated on 13 October 1961.
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