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  • South Korean government through a bloodless coup in 1961 after the resignation ... ;Coup d'état Seizing the moment, Major Gen. Park Chung-hee led a bloodless ...
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  • Democratic rule ended in 1962 with a military coup d'état led by General ... non-military president since the military coup of 1962. On April 6, 2016, Aung ...
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  • However, the newspaper was suppressed during a Prussian coup d'état in June 1849. The coup d'état separated Engels and Marx, who lost his Prussian ...
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  • Oaxacan region coincided with a successful military coup d'état in Spain against the new monarchy of King Ferdinand VII who had returned to power after being ...
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  • in 1960. The country's first military coup occurred in 1966; it returned ... as interim president. In the aftermath of the coup, ECOWAS and African Union suspended ...
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  • post at the École Polytechnique. In 1851, after the coup d'état of that year, Cauchy and François Arago were exempted from taking an oath. Subsequently, ...
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  • in 1009, General Gang Jo of Goryeo led a coup against King Mokjong killing ... than the supreme king himself. That spawned a coup by Yi Ja-gyeom in 1126. The coup ...
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  • and failed foreign policy. He killed many coup-plotters and political enemies ... by his successor as a means of excusing the coup d'état and legitimizing ...
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  • tribes on the northern frontier. In 1170, a coup d'état occurred, brought ... dissident faction that plotted an unsuccessful coup against the king. A high-ranking ...
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  • troops in the Kargil War. Two months later, an army coup led by Pervez Musharraf deposed him. ==Notes== ==References== * Bharat Rakshak. [http://www.bharat ...
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  • In October of that year, the Hutus attempted a coup. The king fled the country, never ... former president Pierre Buyoya took power in a coup d'etat. In August 2000, ...
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  • to write about politics after Louis-Napoleon's coup d'état, primarily for the Revue Germanique, a journal dedicated to promoting Franco-German relations. ...
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  • 12, 1974, when the Marxist Derg staged a coup d'état against Emperor Haile Selassie, and lasted until the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic ...
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  • Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran. This led directly to the coup d'état via Operation Ajax in support of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, who ruled Iran until 1979. ...
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  • Barre, who had seized power in a military coup October 21, 1969 was toppled ... nine years of civilian government, a military coup in 1969 brought Siad Barre into ...
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  • election approached, he was toppled in a coup. He went into exile, living in ... Amin became President. Published works on the coup have asserted that Western Governments ...
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  • prepared to resist what they saw as an illegal coup by force of arms. An uprising ... The events of 1688 and their aftermath can thus be seen as much more of ...
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  • Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka carried out a coup, followed by a second coup on ... A year later, this government was deposed in a coup led by George Speight, a hardline ...
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  • Conspiratorial groups planning a coup of some kind had existed in the German ... a viable structure for a new effort at organizing a coup. In late 1942 Tresckow ...
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  • Hardliners in the Soviet leadership attempted a coup d'état in August ... when the CPSU was proscribed after the August coup, Gorbachev was left with no effective ...
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  • Regime of the Colonels took power in Greece after a coup d'état. After two years marked by widespread censorship, political detentions and torture, Seferis ...
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  • military general to seize power through a coup. He dismissed the elected assembly ... deposed Mirza on October 27 in a bloodless coup, sending Generals Azam, Burki ...
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  • #039;s junta was deposed in a January 1964 coup by General Nguyen Khanh. ... that mass resignations would arouse suspicion of a coup plot. ...
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  • Wafd Party Makram Ebeid. Following the 1952 coup d'état by the Free Officers ... increasing marginalization after the 1952 coup d'état led by Gamal Abdel ...
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  • death, Moussa Dadis Camara seized control in a coup, declaring himself head of a ... along with several countries, denounced the coup, and called for President Condé ...
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  • based on that of Riego in Spain, called for a swift coup d'état to limit instability, and the elimination of the entire royal family. Following assumption ...
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  • 1978, running unopposed. In 1982, an attempted coup failed and Moi took the opportunity ... loyal to his government defeated an attempted coup by Air Force officers led by ...
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  • and forcibly dethroned King U in a de facto coup d'état but did not ascend to the throne right away. Instead, he placed on the throne King U's ...
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  • in 1919. After an attempted anti-Communist coup, Kun unleashed a reprisal, the ... support, could only be accomplished through a coup d'état, he communicated ...
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  • == Coup d'etat == The marriage was unsuccessful. It may not have been ... their empress. The result was a bloodless coup; Ekaterina Dashkova, confidante ...
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  • and the Venezuelans achieved home rule after a coup on April 19, 1810, and declared ... Gallegos was overthrown by a military-backed coup led by Marcos Pérez Jiménez ...
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  • however, he returned to power in the May 1926 coup d'état, becoming de facto ... 1926, Piłsudski returned to power in a coup d'état (the May Coup), ...
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  • Following their coup, the Mountain, led by Hérault de Séchelles, quickly ... supported by The Plain, instituted a coup d'état. A number of plots ...
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  • A socialist government seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977 and continues ... a republic within the Commonwealth. In 1977, a coup d'etat backed by the socialist ...
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  • of dissatisfied officers staged a military coup, putting General Robert Guéi ... that former president Robert Guéi had led a coup attempt, and state television ...
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  • Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup d'état on July 5, 1977 ... the validity of the July 1977 military coup. The Supreme Court of Pakistan ...
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  • admitted into the order. President Napoleon staged a coup d'état and made himself emperor of the French in 1852. ===Second Empire=== An Imperial crown ...
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  • in an attempt to end the Vietnam War when the coup against his regime took place ... his government was overthrown in a military coup, which some claim was backed ...
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  • week of 1341 (presumably he was killed in time of coup d'état). He was married three times, and left seven sons and six daughters. Two of his sons perished ...
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  • Dictatorships can be formed by a military coup that overthrows the previous ... are susceptible to collapse through a coup or a revolution. == Structure == ...
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  • Congress of Soviets following the Bolshevik coup d'etat in which the Provisional ... and allowed his enemies to organize a coup d'etat. ==Notes== ...
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  • of her father until her family was killed in a coup d'état on August 15, 1975 ... and three brothers were assassinated in a coup d'etat by a section of disgruntled ...
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  • governor. After the April 6, 1985, military coup, regional assemblies were suspended ... CPA); the NCP, which came to power by military coup in 1989, is the majority partner; ...
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  • of the British East India Company approved Coup d'état as its policy in Bengal. Mir Jafar, negotiating through an Armenian merchant, Khwaja Petruse ...
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  • family during the French Second Empire, from the coup d'état of December 1851, which established Napoleon III as Emperor through to the aftermath of the Franco ...
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  • Pervez Musharraf, who took power in a military coup d'état in October 1999, introduced a new amendment to Pakistan's constitution which bans prime ...
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  • In 1964, Khrushchev was forced to step down in a coup that brought Leonid ... == Coup involvement and death== It is claimed by some that by 1964, he had ...
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  • or light plane. Forty years of military junta, coup d'état and guerrilla warfare ... to rule by decree until a January 1986 coup. The military council that came ...
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  • history. He led the opposition to an attempted coup by communist hardliners opposed ... himself as a democrat and defying the August coup attempt of 1991 by hard-line ...
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  • Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia's first ...
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