Joseph Bukera
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Joseph Bukera (born 1933) is a Burundian jurist. He served as the Burundian Secretary of State for Justice, Surêté, and Immigration from March to 10 September 1965 and President of the Supreme Court of Burundi from 29 February 1968 to 8 October 1974.
Joseph Bukera was born in 1933 in Muyaga, Ruyigi Province, Ruanda-Urundi. Ethnically, he was Tutsi. He received his primary education and much of his secondary education at the Muyaga Minor Seminary before enrolling at the Burasira Major Seminary, where he studied for two years. He subsequently studied liberal arts at the Official University of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi from 1958 to 1960, and secured a law degree from the Free University of Brussels in 1964. He married a Belgian woman.[1]