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* Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who had ruled the Central African Republic since 1965, proclaimed himself emperor Bokassa I and renamed his impoverished country the Central African Empire in 1977.
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Jean-Bédel and Bokassa
On 1 January 1966, following a swift and almost bloodless coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumed power as president of the Republic.
The country ’ s first president, David Dacko was overthrown by his army chief-of-staff, Jean-Bédel Bokassa in 1966.
The self-declared Emperor of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa ( Emperor Bokassa I ), was tried on October 24, 1986 for several cases of cannibalism although he was never convicted.
In 1976, President Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, proclaimed the country to be an autocratic Central African Empire, and made himself Emperor as Bokassa I.
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* 1987 – The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
** Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor.
** Jean-Bédel Bokassa of Central African Republic / Empire ( b. 1921 )
** Jean-Bédel Bokassa becomes President of the Central African Republic.
* January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
An African judicial commission later determines that Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa " almost certainly " took part in the massacre.
Widespread violence in Bangui followed the March 1981 elections, which took place following a French operation to depose Jean-Bédel Bokassa in 1979 and replace him with David Dacko.
Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing was at first a friend of its ruler, Jean-Bédel Bokassa ; he supplied Bokassa's regime with much financial and military backing.
Jean-Bédel Bokassa (; 22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996, also known as Bokassa I of Central Africa and Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa ), a military officer, was the head of state of the Central African Republic and its successor state, the Central African Empire, from his coup d ' état on 1 January 1966 until 20 September 1979.
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Jean-Bédel and who
He was appointed Brigadier General by Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa in 1978, after he beat a French noncommissioned officer who had disrespected the president.
Jean-Bédel and had
A short-lived Central African Empire was also created in 1976 when dictator Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic proclaimed himself " Emperor Bokassa I " and had a lavish coronation ceremony in 1977.
Jean-Bédel and Central
* Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic ( 1972 ) – became Emperor 1976, deposed 1979, died 1996.
File: Bokassa colored. png | Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President for Life of the Central African Republic ( 1972 – 1976 )
* Supporting the coup d ' état against Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic in 1979 ( Operation Barracuda ) and installing a pro-French government.
* In Operation Barracuda, the DGSE staged a coup d ' état against Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa in the Central African Republic in September 1979, and installed a pro-French government.
His uncle, whose son Jean-Bédel Bokassa would later crown himself as the Emperor of the Central African Empire, was beaten to death at the colonial police station as a result of his alleged resistance to work.
Jean-Bédel and 1965
On the night of December 31, 1965 – January 1, 1966 General Jean-Bédel Bokassa carried out a successful coup d ' état against Dacko and prevented the possible assumption of power by a rival, Colonel Jean Izamo, head of the national gendarme police force.
Jean-Bédel and himself
The empire was formed when Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the republic, declared himself Emperor Bokassa I on 4 December 1976.
Jean-Bédel and .
In 1966, Jean-Bédel Bokassa took power in a coup d ' état.
On 2 January 1975, the dictator Jean-Bédel Bokassa formed a new government and introduced the post of prime minister.
A M ' Baka, he was a distant cousin of future rival Jean-Bédel Bokassa.
Bokassa and who
The republic was restored, and Bokassa, who took refuge in Côte d ' Ivoire and France, was sentenced to death in absentia for various crimes, including cannibalism.
In a related incident, Giscard was reported by the Canard Enchaîné to have accepted diamonds as personal gifts from Bokassa – who fled to France with looted millions from the Central African Republic's treasury, but was still given asylum in France.
Bokassa frequently got into heated arguments with Jean-Paul Douate, the government's chief of protocol, who admonished him for not following the correct order of seating at presidential tables.
However, Dacko forbade his return, and the infuriated Bokassa spent the next few months trying to obtain supporters from the French and Central African armed forces, who he hoped would force Dacko to reconsider his decision.
Dacko did not conceal his plans ; he hinted at his intentions to elders of the Bobangui village, who in turn informed Bokassa of the plot.
Bokassa received substantive support from his co-conspirator, Captain Alexandre Banza, who commanded the Camp Kassaï military base in northeast Bangui, and, like Bokassa, had been stationed with the French army around the world.
Upon arrival, he was confronted by Banza and Bokassa, who informed him of the coup in progress.
Bokassa allegedly participated in the massacre, beating some of the children to death with his cane ; however, the initial reports received by Amnesty International indicated only that the 100 or more school students who died actually suffocated or were beaten to death while being forced into a small jail cell following their arrest.
Bokassa, who was visiting Libya on a state visit at the time, fled to Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ) where he spent four years living in Abidjan.
But the French courts ordered that all 8, 000 copies of the book be confiscated and destroyed after his publisher claimed that Bokassa said that he shared women with President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, who has been a frequent guest in the Central African Republic.
The prosecutor was Gabriel-Faustin M ' Boudou, the Chief Prosecutor of the CAR, who called various witnesses to testify against Bokassa, which included remembering victims ranging from political enemies to a newborn son of a palace guard commander who had been executed for attempting to kill Bokassa in 1978 when he was the self-proclaimed emperor.
Dacko, who belonged to the same Ngbaka ethnic group as Bokassa, was imprisoned, placed under house arrest in Lobaye, but then was released on July 16, 1969 and eventually named personal counselor of President Bokassa on September 17, 1976.
Bokassa himself, who had been sentenced to death in absentia, remained free in Côte d ' Ivoire.
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