Sentences with phrase «military coup deposed»
In 1967 a military coup deposed Premier Siaka Stevens» government; a year later Stevens returned to power following another military coup.
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Wolde, 65, whose plight has drawn the attention of Amnesty International and the International Olympic Committee, had been a captain in the Palace Guard of Haile Selassie before the emperor was deposed in 1974 by a military coup.
Suddenly everyone was agog: Obote had been deposed in his absence by a military coup.