1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état
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1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état
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On 4 August 1983, a coup d'état was launched in the Republic of Upper Volta in an event sometimes referred to as the August revolution or Burkinabé revolution. It was carried out by radical elements of the army led by Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré, against the regime of Major Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo. Ouédraogo had been brought to power in a 1982 coup with the Conseil de Salut du Peuple (CSP), a body composed of military officials of different ideological backgrounds. The CSP chose Sankara a
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Coup that brought Thomas Sankara to power
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Upper_Voltan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
date created:
2018-12-25T07:29:48Z
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2024-09-05T07:55:22Z
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