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BUJUMBURA, June 21 (AFP) - Twelve people were sentenced to death in Burundi on Thursday for "massacres, murders and pillage" committed in 1993 at the start of the civil war, the justice ministry said.

Eleven sentences were handed down in the central town of Karuzi and one in Ngozi in the north.

The 1993 assassination of Burundi's first democratically elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, was followed by inter-ethnic massacres between the majority Hutus and Tutsis and provoked the start of the current civil war. - Nampa-AFP

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