Sudan, 1990 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 29 March 1990, during the intense conspiracy and purge climate in the first year of Lieutenant General Omar al-Bashir's National Salvation Revolution regime in Sudan, weeks before the well-documented Ramadan coup attempt of 23 April 1990. Bashir had seized power on 30 June 1989 in a coup masterminded by the National Islamic Front and its ideologue Hassan al-Turabi, and his Revolutionary Command Council quickly banned all political parties and trade unions, detained hundreds of politicians and unionists, and moved to purge the regular army, which the Islamists distrusted as too secular and professional. Tens of thousands of individuals were eventually removed from the army, police, and civil administration to ensure loyalty, and the regime built the Popular Defence Forces as an ideological counterweight while escalating the war against the Sudan People's Liberation Army.
In this atmosphere of repeated real and alleged plots, the 29 March 1990 coding sits in the pre-Ramadan-coup period of officer disaffection and conspiracy against the new junta, shortly before the 23 April 1990 attempt that led to the summary execution of 28 officers.
Researched Details
Researched
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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
62503291990
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Bashir survived the 1990 plotting and ruled Sudan for 30 years until his 2019 overthrow.
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
Wall Street Journal
Globe and Mail
Chicago Tribune
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