Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better life seemed as elusive as ever. Throughout Burma, troops loyal to the new military leader, General Saw Maung, Burma's fourth head of government in four months, bloodied demonstrators brave enough to continue protesting the resumption of military rule. In the days after the coup, the crack of rifles could be heard as soldiers fired from rooftops at people who had gathered outside the U.S. embassy. Many more were cut down at Sule Pagoda as thousands of people fled the onslaught, screaming when the soldiers lowered their rifles and fired bursts directly at bystanders and protesters. Ambulance drivers were...
...Maung, 59, is a faithful follower of Ne Win, 78, who is strongly suspected of continuing to pull the strings behind the scenes ever since his resignation last July. The Burmese have not forgotten that Ne Win also promised elections, soon after he seized power in a 1962 coup, and that he never delivered on the commitment...
...Haiti no one was either making promises or asking for any from the new regime. At first, the coup caught many Haitians, including the main opposition groups, by surprise. But as mutinous troops arrested commander after commander, a strange civilian counterpart to the revolt began to take place in key state corporations. Top officials of the water, electricity and phone companies were told by their staffs that they were no longer in charge. The governor of the Central Bank, Onill Millet, was "fired" by his employees and thrown out of the building...
...that has seethed within the lower echelons of the armed forces since the 1986 ouster of dictator Jean- Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. Two weeks ago, the unrest exploded when noncommissioned officers toppled Lieut. General Henri Namphy as Haiti's leader and installed Lieut. General Prosper Avril as President. The coup grew out of grievances that ranged from bad food to military tolerance of the murder of civilians by thugs and members of the Tonton Macoutes, the secret police who terrorized Haitians during the 28-year dynasty begun by Duvalier's father Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
After concluding that conditions would not improve under Namphy, a group of young officers led by Sergeant Joseph Hebreux, a 27-year-old medic in the Presidential Guard, began plotting to remove him. Namphy learned of the coup through a defector and planned to arrest about 75 guardsmen. But on Saturday, Sept. 17, two tanks and some 650 troops surrounded the National Palace. Desperate, Namphy called for help from Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, who commands Haiti's main military barracks. Paul hurried to the scene but without mustering his men. When Namphy finally grabbed a megaphone and tried to persuade...