Chad, 1992 — palace coup attempt
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as an attempted palace coup in Chad on 18 June 1992 against President Idriss Deby, one of the numerous armed challenges that beset his regime in its early, fragile years. Deby had taken power in December 1990 by overthrowing Hissene Habre, and his government, dominated by his Zaghawa ethnic group, faced constant plotting and rebellion from rival factions, aggrieved officers, and remnants of the old order in a country chronically destabilized by civil war and the meddling of Libya and Sudan. In June 1992 an attempt from within the regime or the presidential circle, coded as a palace coup, was mounted against Deby and was put down.
It was one of a rapid succession of coup and mutiny attempts he survived while he consolidated his hold and managed a slow, troubled political opening that included a national conference in 1993 and eventually contested elections. Deby proved a durable survivor, weathering plot after plot over the following decades and ruling Chad for thirty years until he was killed at the front while fighting a rebel incursion in April 2021.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
48306181992
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Idriss Deby put down the June 1992 palace coup attempt and continued consolidating power.
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
CSP
Christian Science Monitor
Globe and Mail
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