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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 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.
* 1921 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African Republic leader ( d. 1996 )
* 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, 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.
** 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.
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Jean-Bédel and –
* 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 )
His seven year term ( 1964 – 1971 ), however, was cut short by a coup d ' état carried out by his cousin, army commander Jean-Bédel Bokassa ( see below ).
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 also
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 I
The empire was formed when Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the republic, declared himself Emperor Bokassa I on 4 December 1976.
Jean-Bédel and Central
* 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 officer
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 was
A M ' Baka, he was a distant cousin of future rival Jean-Bédel Bokassa.
Jean-Bédel and coup
In 1966, Jean-Bédel Bokassa took power in a coup d ' état.
Jean-Bédel and January
On 2 January 1975, the dictator Jean-Bédel Bokassa formed a new government and introduced the post of prime minister.
Bokassa and 22
Bokassa was born on 22 February 1921 as one of 12 children to Mindogon Mgboundoulou, a village chief, and his wife Marie Yokowo in Bobangui, a large M ' Baka village in the Lobaye basin located at the edge of the equatorial forest, then a part of colonial French Equatorial Africa, some southwest of Bangui.
Bokassa and February
On 29 February 1988, President Kolingba demonstrated his opposition to capital punishment by voiding the death penalty against Bokassa and commuted his sentence to life in prison in solitary confinement, and the following year reduced the sentence to 20 years.
Bokassa and –
* December 31 – Bokassa takes power in the Central Africa Republic.
* September 20 – French paratroopers help David Dacko to overthrow Bokassa in the Central African Republic.
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.
On the night of September 20 – 21, 1979, French paratroopers carried out Operation Barracuda, which overthrew Bokassa and restored Dacko to the presidency.
Bokassa and 3
Bokassa died of a heart attack on 3 November 1996 in Bangui, at the age of 75.
Bokassa and November
After his release, Bokassa lived a private life in his former capital, Bangui, until his death in November 1996.
While serving in the Second bataillon de marche, Bokassa became a corporal in July 1940 and a sergeant major in November 1941.
After Bokassa threatened to withdraw from the franc monetary zone, President Charles de Gaulle decided to make an official visit to the CAR on 17 November 1966.
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