Word: sekou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radio Conakry was still broadcasting funeral dirges and flowery eulogies last week for President Ahmed Sekou Toure, who had been buried only a few days earlier, when an anonymous spokesman broke in with a bulletin. Guinea's armed forces had seized power in a bloodless coup, the announcer declared. The goal, he went on, was to replace Toure's 26 years of "bloody and ruthless" rule with "true democracy." Word of the coup brought many rejoicing Guineans out into the streets...
...piped to them over a public address system. Some of the federal trial suspects mounted a more traditional defense. Others, seemingly as well coordinated as the prosecutors, declared that the court had no right to try them. "I am clearly a political prisoner of war," intoned ex-Black Panther Sekou Odinga, 39, who added that he is engaged in an "armed struggle with the United States...