In 1978, president Ali Soilih, who had a firm anti-French line, was killed and Ahmed Abdallah came to power.

Ahmed Abdallah was replaced by Ali Soilih.

Ali Soilih, full name Ali Soilih Mtsashiwa, ( January 7, 1937 – May 29, 1978 ) was a Comorian socialist revolutionary and political figure.

Soilih was born in Majunga, Madagascar.

Soilih embarked on a revolutionary program that was mainly directed against the traditional Muslim society of the country.

On May 13, 1978, Soilih was finally overthrown by a fifty-member European mercenary unit, hired by exiled former leader Ahmed Abdallah in France and led by French Colonel Bob Denard.

After Abdallah took over, Soilih's policies were reversed and the name of the country was changed to " Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros ", Abdallah became president, and Soilih was soon assassinated by Abdallah's supporters.

* May 12 – May 13 – A group of mercenaries led by Bob Denard oust Ali Soilih in the Comoros ; 10 local soldiers are killed.

Flag of the " État comorien " under the rule of Ali Soilih ( 1975-1978 )

A French mercenary by the name of Bob Denard, arrived in Comoros at dawn on 13 May 1978, and removed Soilih from power.

With the support of the Rhodesian government, he returned to the Comoros with 43 men on May 13, 1978 and carried out a coup against president Ali Soilih, who had turned toward socialist policies.

In 1970 Ali Soilih entered politics as a supporter of Said Ibrahim, leader of the Democratic Assembly of the Comoran People, Rassemblement démocratique du Peuple Comorien ( RDPC ), and soon developed an ideology based on hostility against France as former colonial power.

This occurred on August 3, 1975 when Soilih, whose adherents were barely armed, hired French mercenary Bob Denard to overthrow Abdallah.

The effects of the social policies of Ali Soilih are still apparent in the Comoros, particularly on Anjouan.

* May 29 – Ali Soilih is found dead in the Comoros, allegedly shot when trying to escape.

The first president of Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, did not last long before being ousted in a coup by Ali Soilih, an atheist with an Islamic background.

Soilih began with a set of solid socialist ideals designed to modernize the country.

Comoros also hosted an embassy of China, which established relations during the Soilih regime.

The three years of estrangement following the unilateral declaration of independence and the nationalistic Soilih regime were followed during the conservative Abdallah and Djohar regimes by a period of growing trade, aid, cultural, and defense links between the former colony and France, punctuated by frequent visits to Paris by the head of state and occasional visits by the French president to Moroni.

Nationalization, even during the Soilih years, has been limited.

Soilih did expropriate the facilities of a foreign oil company, but only after the government of Madagascar took over the company's plants in that country.

Less than a month after Comoros gained independence from France, Soilih overthrew President Said Mohamed Jaffar and became head of a revolutionary council which took over Comoros.

Soilih officially became President of the revolutionary council in January 1976.

Soilih advanced the cause of the youth by discouraging the study of history and allowing young people to take more power.

Soilih created the ' Moissy ', a young revolutionary militia trained by Tanzanian military advisers.

Growing discontent promoted by the political opposition resulted in four unsuccessful coup attempts against the Soilih regime during its two and a half-year existence.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Running across the deck, which was empty now that the livestock had been killed and eaten, they sniffed the spice-laden breezes that came from the shore, each pointing out new and exciting wonders to the other.

Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.

As the cloth dried, more of the mixture was applied, and after twenty-four hours the felon was supposed to be `` killed ''.

There is no accounting of his movements in this long gap of time which covers the early hours when Mrs. Borden was killed.

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( In the graveyard at Nairobi he had been shown the graves of thirty-four big game hunters killed hunting the animals he was attempting to lasso.

`` The Bartlett girl was killed by Mr. Dronk's son.

When Alec finished reading he was sure that either Forbes or Stacy had killed Diana Beauclerk.

There was still a little, not much, left in the first bottle and we passed it around once and killed it, and Charlie opened his.

That way we'll never know which of us really killed him and which was just the accomplice.

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Mrs. Hengesbach was killed on Aug. 31, 1958.

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Another man tried to swim across the river from the East to the West, but was shot and killed.

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`` Suppose it was not us that killed these aliens.

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* in Labadea, east of Delphi, Trophonius, another son of Apollo, killed his brother and fled to the cave where he was also afterwards consulted as an oracle

Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since Python was a child of Gaia.