Algeria, 1964 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
In late June 1964 Colonel Mohammed Chaabani, a young and popular military commander from the Saharan region, launched a revolt against the government of President Ahmed Ben Bella, in one of the succession of armed challenges that beset Algeria in the two years after independence. Chaabani, angered by Ben Bella's centralizing and autocratic rule and by the growing power of the defense minister and army chief Houari Boumediene, raised an insurrection in the desert region around Biskra. But the rising, like the FFS rebellion in Kabylie the year before, failed to spread, and Boumediene's army crushed it.
Chaabani was captured, tried, and executed in September 1964. His revolt was another symptom of the factional and regional fractures within the FLN state that Ben Bella struggled to contain, tensions that culminated a year later in Boumediene's own bloodless coup that overthrew Ben Bella in June 1965.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Datasets agree. At least two of the three reference datasets we check against carry this event, and none of them disagrees about its date or its result.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
61506301964- Albrecht/Koehler/Schutz (CAM) id
CAM-615-1964-06-30
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Ahmed Ben Bella survived the Chaabani revolt, which was crushed and its leader executed, until his own overthrow in 1965.
Baseline coding: Coup attempt failed to remove the incumbent. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Powell and Thyne
New York Times
Christian Science Monitor
Washington Post
This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →