Event class: government, military, coup, led, army, president, power, national, general, leader

Events with high posterior probability

Bello Bouba Maigari	Bello Bouba went into exile in Nigeria following the failed April 1984 coup attempt against Biya.
Chuan Leekpai	As the leader of the Democrat Party, Chuan was elected in 1992 after the abortive coup by General Suchinda Kraprayoon, thus becoming Thailand's first prime minister to come to power without either aristocratic or military backing.
Protais Zigiranyirazo	An ethnic Hutu, he was well-connected to the Hutu establishment of politicians, businessmen and military officers which then controlled Rwanda : he is the brother of Agathe Kanziga, wife of the late Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana, whose assassination on 6 April 1994 precipitated the events leading to the genocide.
Guy Philippe	The Haïtian government accused Philippe of masterminding a deadly attack on the Police Academy in July 2001 and of an attempted coup in December 2001.
Rahmatullah Safi	Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, he joined the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan, a mujahideen party led by Pir Sayyed Ahmed Gailani.
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah	In 1996, a coup attempt involving Johnny Paul Koroma and other junior officers of the Sierra Leone Army was unsuccessful, but served as notice that Kabbah's control over military and government officials in Freetown was weakening.
Denis Sassou Nguesso	When Ngouabi was assassinated in March 1977, Nguesso played a key role in maintaining control, briefly heading the Military Committee of the Party (CMP, Comité Militaire du Parti) that controlled the state before the succession of Colonel Joachim Yhombi-Opango.
S. P. Somtow	Somtow has been critical of all sides in the political disputes following the 2006 Thailand coup.
Salim Lawzi	In 1957, it took the side of opposition to the Lebanese government during the rule of President Camille Chamoun, and because of his criticism was jailed and his magazine temporarily suspended in May 1957.
Saprang Kalayanamitr	A week after the coup, Saprang was promoted to Assistant Army Commander, alongside fellow coup leader Anupong Paochinda.
William Hawi	On June 16, 1958, William Hawi was in charge of organizing and leading the activists during the Lebanese events ; this constituted the hub of the Party's Regulatory Forces.
Jamal al-Atassi	In 1970 Jamal al-Atassi supported the rise of Hafez al-Assad to power in a coup that ousted his own cousin Nour al-Deen as president.
Aminu Isa Kontagora	In January 2003 he was reported to be supporting the presidential bid of former military ruler Major-General Muhammadu Buhari.
Penaia Ganilau	Attempting to uphold the constitution, he tried to return Fiji to parliamentary democracy, but a second coup forced him to resign as governor-general on 15 October 1987, with the ending of Fiji's monarchy.
Rey Langit	In 1989, with the Aquino Administration far from being stable, Langit once more became the voice that the Filipino masses listened to as he courageously reported on what became a series of coup d'état attempt to overthrow the Aquino administration.
Hamani Diori	On 15 April 1974, Lieutenant colonel Seyni Kountché led a military coup that ended Diori's rule.
Ne Win	On 31 January 1949, Ne Win was appointed Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and given total control of the army replacing General Smith Dun, an ethnic Karen.
Adib Shishakli	In December 1949, Shishakli launched another coup, the third in 1949, arresting Hinnawi to break Hashemite influence in Syria, but keeping Atassi at his post.
David Maynier	On 27 March 2013 Maynier led the thrust for a parliamentary inquiry into the SANDF's intervention in the Central African Republic coup.
Chit Phumisak	It was as a student that Chit first became exposed to Marxism ; in 1953 he was hired by the U. S. embassy to help assist William J. Gedney, an American linguist working in Thailand, to translate The Communist Manifesto into Thai (in an attempt to scare the Thai government into taking a tougher stance against communism).
Vijay R. Singh	He played an active part in multi-party talks held in London, culminating in the new constitution and Fiji's independence in 1970.
Hussein Farrah Aidid	On March 30, 1998, Ali Mahdi Mohamed and Hussein Aidid formed a peace plan which shared power over Mogadishu, ending a period of seven years of fighting after the ouster of Siad Barre.
Roman Dumbadze	Dumbadze had been in command of the 25th Motor-Rifle Brigade based in Batumi, the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, by April 2004, when the dispute between the Georgian central government of Mikheil Saakashvili and the long-time Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze escalated into a crisis, taking on the characteristics of a military conflict.
Muzaffer Tekin	He participated in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, He was forced to retire in 1986, having reached the rank of Captain, due to a Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) decision in relation to a fight Tekin was involved in.
Gohar Ayub Khan	Gohar Ayub Khan is the son of former President Field Marshal Ayub Khan and played an influential role in sustaining his father's presidential rule after the 1965 presidential elections.
Jos? Eduardo dos Santos	In 1970 he returned to Angola, which was still a Portuguese territory known as the Overseas Province of Angola, and joined the MPLA's guerrilla forces EPLA (Exército Para a Libertação de Angola) later to be known as the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA), a branch of the MPLA, becoming a radio transmitter in the second political-military region of the MPLA in Cabinda Province.
Dele Momodu	In 1993, Dele resigned to join the Moshood Abiola Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dele Momodu was arrested and detained at Alagbon Close in Lagos, after the annulment of the June 12 Presidential election by General Ibrahim Babangida.
Tengiz Kitovani	On the night of August 13, 1992, Kitovani's force entered the autonomous republic of Abkhazia, whose leadership had taken a series of steps towards secession from Georgia, in order to establish control over the region's railways sabotaged by Gamsakhurdia's loyal militia s. Although this operation and show of force resulted in the eventual release of the hostages, Kitovani, acting most probably on his own initiative, proceeded towards Abkhazia's capital of Sukhumi and forced the Abkhaz leaders into flight.
Yigael Yadin	In June 1948 he threatened to resign during the Generals' Revolt during which he accused Ben-Gurion of attempting'' to transform the army as a whole into an army of one political party (Mapai)''.
Francisco Flores P?rez	Later he served as a vice-minister of the Presidency, with functions as adviser of the head of state, and directed the plan of governmental action in accordance with the peace accords of January 1992 that ended fighting with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerilla group.
George Habash	In 1970, Habash was evicted from Jordan due to the key role of the Popular Front in the Black September clashes.
Firmin Ayessa	Ayessa presided over the ceremony at which the Ninja militia leader Pasteur Ntoumi, who had earlier led a rebellion against the government, was installed in his office as Delegate-General for the Promotion of the Values of Peace and Repair of the Ravages of War in December 2009.
Mojtaba Khamenei	Mojtaba has reportedly taken control over the Basij militia being used to suppress the protests over the 2009 election and is also reported to be'' being groomed'' to succeed his father as Supreme Leader.
Riad al-Turk	He was imprisoned again in 1958 under Nasser for opposing the merger of Syria and Egypt in the United Arab Republic and held for sixteen months.
Idi Amin	Establishment of military rule On 2 February 1971, one week after the coup, Amin declared himself President of Uganda, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Army Chief of Staff, and Chief of Air Staff.
Loti Kobalia	After Gamsakhurdia's fall in January 1992, Kobalia led resistance to the forces loyal to the new regime led, since March 1992, by Eduard Shevardnadze in the western Georgian province of Mingrelia, Gamsakhurdia's principal powerbase.
Namik Haluk Baskinci	While Turkey was heading to an inevitable political crisis, which collapsed in the 1980 Turkish coup d'état | 12 September Coup in 1980, Haluk became active in several political student organizations such as DevSol ('' The Revolutionary Left'') and Dev-Yol ('' The Revolutionary Path'').
Alan Badel	He also played the French Interior Minister in The Day of the Jackal (1973), a political thriller about the attempted assassination of President Charles de Gaulle.
Patty Hearst	In 1974, Patty Hearst gained notoriety during the waning days of the counterculture era when she was kidnapped by, and later joined, the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla	Haidalla's 1984 recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR, the POLISARIO's government-in-exile) as a sovereign nation appears to have been one of the triggering causes for Maaouya Ould Sid' Ahmed Taya's coup in 1984.
Ruslan Khasbulatov	Among other factors, the escalating clash of egos between Khasbulatov and Yeltsin led to the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, in which Khasbulatov (along with former Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoy) led the Russian Supreme Soviet in its power struggle with the president, which ended with Yeltsin's violent assault on and subsequent dissolution of the parliament in October 1993.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani	In January 2008 General Kayani passed a directive which ordered military officers not to maintain contacts with politicians.
Antonio Azarola y Gresill?n	In the crucial hours that followed General Franco's coup of July 1936, Azarola made a conscious decision to remain loyal to the Spanish Republic.
Barkat Gourad Hamadou	A peace agreement with the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD), an Afar rebel group, was signed in 1994 ; Hamadou played an important role in this agreement.
Emilio Ochoa	Dr. Ochoa was arrested 32 times because of his political beliefs and went into exile in 1960, following the takeover of the country by Fidel Castro, who had formerly been a member of the Partido Ortodoxo.
Garba Duba	Garba Duba was one of the northern officers who mutinied in July and August 1966 during the disturbances before and after the murder of the head of state, General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, after which General Yakubu Gowon came to power.
Neville Alexander Odartey-Wellington	The SMCII commenced the transition to multi-party democratic rule, but was itself overthrown in a bloody coup on June 4, 1979, during which Major General Odartey-Wellington was killed while leading loyal troops.
Jos? Mar?a Gil-Robles y Qui?ones	Whatever his politics were, with the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Gil-Robles was unwilling to struggle with Francisco Franco for power and in April 1937 announced the dissolution of CEDA.
Afif al-Bizri	He served in the French-created'' Troupe Speciale,'' but deserted his post to join the Syrian rebels in 1945, which led to his arrest and deportation to Lebanon by the French authorities.
Mariano Goybet	Lebanon and Syria became a French mandate and in July 1920, the 24th Division commanded by General Goybet advanced on Damascus.
Karim Pakradouni	In 1994, after the pro-Syrian Lebanese government ordered the dissolution of the LF and arrest of Samir Geagea on 21 April 1994, Pakradouni was sidelined and later on returned to the Kataeb Party.
Salva Kiir Mayardit	In 1983, when Dr John Garang joined an army mutiny he had been sent to put down, Kiir and other Southern leaders joined the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the second civil war.
Henri Gouraud (French Army officer)	Gouraud led French forces which crushed King Faisal's short-lived monarchy at the Battle of Maysalun on 23 July 1920, occupied Damascus, defeated the forces of the Syrian Revolution and established the French Mandate of Syria.
Augusto Vandor	Its success made him prominent in the UOM (the steelworker s' union within the CGT, the paramount trade union in Argentina), but led to his arrest following a 1955 military coup that overthrew the populist administration of Juan Perón.
Medferiashwork Abebe	Medferiashwork was said to have played a key role in organizing the opposition to the attempted 1960 coup against Emperor Haile Selassie.
Omar Torrijos	In the internal power struggle that followed Torrijos emerged victorious -- he exiled Martínez in 1969 and promoted himself to brigadier general.
Victoriano Huerta	Following a confused few days of fighting in Mexico City between loyalist and rebel factions of the Army, Huerta had Madero and vice-president José María Pino Suárez seized and briefly imprisoned on 18 February 1913 in the National Palace.
Georgios Kartalis	Kartalis however participated as EKKA's representative in the Lebanon conference of May 1944, which led to the creation of a national unity government under George Papandreou.
Afif al-Bizri	He personally participated in the talks that eventually led to the establishment of the United Arab Republic on February 1, 1958.
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah	In November 1996, in Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire, he signed a peace agreement with the rebel leader, former Corporal Foday Sankoh of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
Frank Bainimarama	A group led by George Speight, a businessman who had been declared bankrupt following the cancellation of several contracts by the government, entered Parliament buildings on 19 May 2000 and disaffected elements of the Fijian population rallied to his side.
Omar Bongo	France without Gabon is like a car with no fuel...'' In 1964 when renegade soldiers arrested him in Libreville and kidnapped president M'ba, French paratroopers rescued the abducted president and Mr Bongo, restoring them to power.
Juan Atilio Bramuglia	Following a nationalist military coup in June 1943, he joined the leader of the rival rail union La Fraternidad, Francisco Capozzi, and a colleague in the CGT, retail employees' union leader Ángel Borlenghi, in alliance that sought a role within the new government.
Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)	Taylor supported the 12 April 1980 coup led by Samuel Doe, which saw the murder of President William R. Tolbert, Jr. and seizure of power by Doe.
Messali Hadj	In 1962, as Algeria gained independence from France, Messali tried to transform his group into a legitimate political party, but it was not successful, and the FLN seized control over Algeria as a one-party state.
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah	He signed several peace accords with the rebel leader Foday Sankoh, including the 1999 Lomé Peace Accord, in which the rebels, for the first time agreed to a temporary cease fire with the Sierra Leone government.
Jos? Mar?a Linares	In 1857, Linares came to power at the head of a pro-civilian military coup d'état, a novelty in the country.
Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim	In 1990 Fatima left Sudan after the Omar Hassan al-Bashir military coup, and joined the opposition in exile as the President of the banned Sudanese Women's Union.
Mehmet Shehu	In 1949, he ordered 14 Catholic tribesmen in the Mirdita region executed after underground fighters aligned with conservative Albanian political exiles working as Italian Navy espionage agents executed Bardhok Biba, a relative of Catholic tribal leader Gjon Markagjoni who had turned against the tribal system to become a ranking Communist district official.
Goukouni Oueddei	Goukouni returned to Chad on July 30, 2007, along with about twenty other exiled opponents of the regime, for a discussion with Déby regarding the rebellion and how to resolve the situation.
Carlos Menem	On December 3, 1990, Menem had ordered the forceful repression of a politically motivated uprising by a far-right figure, Col. Mohamed Alí Seineldín, ending the military's involvement in the country's political life.
Jorge Isaacs	However his political career ended in 1879 after an incident where he proclaimed himself political and military leader of Antioquia in response to a conservative revolt.
Gilles Caron	After nearly 2 years fighting a war he opposed, Caron refused to fight after the Generals' putsch, an aborted coup d'état attempted by 4 former French generals in April 1961.
Mohamed Bacar	He was part of a military coup on Anjouan in August 2001 and soon became President.
Koila Nailatikau	Adi Koila expressed anger that Simione Kaitani (whom she accused of making speeches against her father inside the parliamentary complex during the coup) and Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu (whom she accused of having ordered the burning of a property owned by her father, the Matailakeba Cane Farm in Seaqaqa, on July 29, 2000) both now held Cabinet positions, and that former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and former Police Commissioner Isikia Savua, both of whom her late father had accused of involvement in the coup, now either occupied or had been nominated for senior diplomatic posts.
Fidel Castro	At Castro's command, the politically moderate lawyer Manuel Urrutia Lleó was proclaimed provisional president, with Castro erroneously announcing he had been selected by'' popular election'' ; most of Urrutia's cabinet were MR-26-7 members.
Yoweri Museveni	In May 1980, Binaisa himself was placed under house arrest after an attempt to dismiss Oyite Ojok, the army chief of staff -- in what was a de facto coup led by Paulo Muwanga, Yoweri Museveni, Oyite Ojok and Tito Okello.
Pedro Gamero del Castillo	In July 1943, Gamero, along with various members of the Cortes and several senior army officers, called upon Franco to prepare for the post-Second World War era by restoring the monarchy under Don Juan.
Juan Esteban Montero	On June 4, 1932, colonel Marmaduke Grove staged a coup d'état by taking over the Air Force base of El Bosque, in Santiago, and demanding the resignation of President Montero.
Georgios Papandreou	After the April 1967 military coup by the Colonels' junta led by George Papadopoulos, Papandreou was arrested.
Fid?le Moungar	On July 30, 2007, Moungar returned to Chad along with a delegation of about 20 other exiled opponents of the regime to meet with Déby and discuss how to restore peace to the country ; he and the rest of the delegation returned to Libreville, Gabon on the same day.
Leonid Brezhnev	Outwardly, Brezhnev remained loyal to Khrushchev, but he became involved in a 1963 plot to remove the leader from power, possibly playing a leading role.
Prem Tinsulanonda	In the Thai political crisis of the 2000s, he was accused by deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his supporters of being a mastermind of the 2006 coup The military junta that ousted the legally occupying Thaksin denied that Prem had any important political role.
Santiago Casares Quiroga	He was serving as prime minister when the military uprising of 17 July 1936 took place, which then developed into the Spanish Civil War.
Tzannis Tzannetakis	He served as a naval officer but resigned on 22 April 1967, the day after the military coup d'état which brought the dictatorship of George Papadopoulos to power.
Roozbeh Farahanipour	Most significantly, during the 2009 national uprising after allegations of an electoral coup in June, Farahanipour and Marzé Por Gohar were active in attempting to facilitate the groundswell for a revolutionary overthrow of a regime that many people had come to recognize as irreformable.
Gregorio Honasan	In 1986, Honasan and a cabal of colonels, backed by Enrile, tried to use popular unrest to overthrow the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos.
Michel Aoun	August 1991 : Under siege and militaristic pressure by the Syrian army and the Lebanese Forces, Aoun now holed up in the presidential palace of Baabda, was requested to go to the French Embassy to declare a surrender.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	He then went into exile to Afghanistan, he returned from exile in December 1972 to a popular response, following the establishment of National Awami Party provincial government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
Beqir Balluku	However, in 1974, Balluku himself, along with a group of other government members, was accused by Hoxha of an attempted coup d'état against the Albanian Communist Government.
Miguel Buiza Fern?ndez-Palacios	Four years later, when the Spanish Civil War started, he was in command of military tugboat Cíclope (RA-1) and refused to join the July 1936 pro-Fascist coup, remaining loyal to the republic.
Adnan Pachachi	Pachachi was promptly appointed Iraq's Permanent Representative to the UN in 1959 by the revolutionary regime of Abdul Karim Qassim, during this time Iraq formed a close relationship with the Soviet Union led by Nikita Khrushchev.
Laisenia Qarase	After the military quashed the coup that led to the removal of Mahendra Chaudhry, Qarase joined the Interim Military Government as a financial adviser on 9 June 2000, until his appointment as Prime Minister on 4 July.
Cyril Banks	He was less active in the Parliament, because he was building up contacts with the government of Egypt : in September 1954 he was invited to join the Egyptian Government production council as an adviser.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto	On 5 July 1977 the military, led by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, staged a coup.
Petros Soumilas	He was reinstated with the electoral defeat of Eleftherios Venizelos in November 1920 which brought the royalist opposition to power, and assumed command of the Xanthi Division in Eastern Thrace.
Anupong Paochinda	While a Lieutenant General holding the position of 1st Army Area Commander, Anupong was also an appointed member of the Council for National Security, the junta that staged the 2006 Thai coup d'état and deposed the caretaker government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Altay Tokat	He served in south-eastern Turkey (OHAL) in the mid-1990s in the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, and led Operation Hammer (1997) into northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Abdulmumini Aminu	Aminu was one of the officers who arrested General Muhammadu Buhari in the August 1985 coup in which General Ibrahim Babangida came to power.
Ver?ssimo Correia Seabra	He was again involved in a May 1999 military coup that forced President Vieira from power.