Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haiti, where a military coup deposed democratically-elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide two years ago, Albright said the United States would like to continue economic sanctions...
Specifically, Kennedy was upset because the administration had not taken significant steps to restore Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. A military coup two years ago deposed Aristide, a personal friend of Kennedy, who is currently living in exile in Washington...
...eight elevated after irregular elections organized by the military last year, declared that under the constitution, Aristide's long absence left them no choice but to appoint a successor. As a 21-gun salute boomed over the capital, Supreme Court Justice Emile Jonassaint was sworn in, in a technical coup intended to prevent Aristide from ever coming back. Standing right by Jonassaint's shoulder was Cedras...
...Freeze the foreign bank accounts and property assets of all Haitians, not merely those of the estimated 600 army officers and coup supporters expressly targeted by the new U.N. sanctions. Haiti's poor, with nothing to save or invest, would be unaffected. But the oligarchs, the rich civilians without whose support the military's murderous clique couldn't rule, would be hit in their wallets -- perhaps the only action capable of persuading them to invite Aristide back...
...April 6, when the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana and his neighboring head of state Cyprien Ntaryamira from Burundi was shot out of the sky over the capital of Kigali, plunging into the gardens of the presidential palace. Habyarimana was a Hutu who had grabbed power in a coup in 1973 and worked hard to hang onto it. He was on his way back from a peace conference in Tanzania that was meant to end years of struggle between the minority Tutsi and the ruling Hutu. Instead, with his death, the fighting turned into massacre after massacre after massacre...