Sudan, 1990 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 12 September 1990, corresponding to the September 1990 coup attempt against Lieutenant General Omar al-Bashir's regime in Sudan, a distinct episode from the better-known Ramadan coup of 23 April 1990. In its 1990 report Human Rights Watch recorded that, in addition to the twenty-eight senior officers summarily tried and executed after the April attempt, ten further executions followed a September coup attempt against the government. This second 1990 plot came as the Bashir regime deepened its repression and international isolation, having declared support for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, which prompted the United States to begin publicly criticizing Sudan's human rights record.
Through this period the regime maintained strict censorship, dissolved trade unions, and pursued its war against the Sudan People's Liberation Army, bombing relief centers in the south in September 1990. The 12 September 1990 coding sits at this September 1990 coup attempt, after which ten officers were executed, in the first year and a half of Bashir's National Islamic Front-backed rule.
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
62509121990
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Bashir suppressed the September 1990 plot, executing ten officers, and remained in power until 2019.
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
Middle East Contemporary Survey 1990
The Gazette
The Guardian
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