Algeria, 1992 — military coup

Fate coding: the deposed president Chadli Bendjedid was forced to resign and was not physically harmed, matching the dataset. Coding note: the dataset labels this a military coup, accurately, the army forcing the president out and seizing control of the political process. Arc link: this is the companion to the June 1991 Algeria auto-coup record in this same batch; there the army asserted dominance within Bendjedid's regime, here it removed him entirely and cancelled the elections. Who is coded deposed: President Chadli Bendjedid, judged by the generals too willing to accommodate the FIS. Historical weight recorded: cancelling the runoff that the FIS was set to win triggered the Algerian Civil War, the decade-long conflict known as the Black Decade, which killed very large numbers of people; the war and its toll are recorded as documented later context rather than detailed here. Context recorded and handled neutrally: the coup-makers argued they acted to prevent a theocratic state and to safeguard republican institutions, while critics saw it as the cancellation of a democratic outcome; both framings are recorded rather than adjudicated. The FIS was then banned and its members arrested, and the new High Council of State's leader Mohamed Boudiaf was assassinated in June 1992, later context. Neutrality maintained on a contested subject.