Cyriaque Simbizi (died 6 April 1994) was a Burundian Minister of Communication who was assassinated in a plane shootdown.
[2] On 6 April 1994 Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira attended a regional summit in Dar es Salaam.
Habyarimana agreed and allowed Ntaryamira to accompany him along with two of his ministers, Simbizi and Bernard Ciza.
At 8:23 PM as the jet was approaching Kigali International Airport, two surface-to-air rockets were fired, with the second missile striking it.
[3] Simbizi was buried in Bujumbura in a state funeral on 16 April alongside Ntaryamira and Ciza.