Sudan, 1969 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 20 July 1969, in the consolidation phase immediately following Colonel Gaafar Nimeiry's bloodless coup of 25 May 1969, which ended Sudan's second democratic era and installed a Revolutionary Command Council pursuing Nasserist Arab nationalism in tactical alliance with the Sudanese Communist Party. Nimeiry's coup had itself preempted rival plots by other army factions supported variously by the Communists, Arab nationalists, and conservative religious groups. In the weeks after seizing power the regime arrested civilian politicians, forced senior officers to retire, banned political parties, and moved to neutralize the traditionalist opposition, above all the Ansar sect and its Umma Party, led by the exiled-in-waiting Sadiq al-Mahdi and Imam al-Hadi al-Mahdi.
The July 1969 coding sits in this early period of the May Regime consolidating power against real and suspected counter-plots, before the open confrontation with the Ansar at Aba Island in March 1970.
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
62507201969
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Nimeiry's Revolutionary Command Council held power and suppressed rival factions; Nimeiry ruled until 1985.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. 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
Chicago Tribune
Irish Times
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