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62504151992ConspiracyMilitary coup

Sudan, 1992 — military coup conspiracy

Sudan (SDN)North Africa, AfricaApril 15, 1992

Event Summary

This entry is coded 15 April 1992, close to the well-documented March 1992 coup attempt against Lieutenant General Omar al-Bashir's regime in Sudan, which was led by Colonel Ahmed Khaled, a sympathizer of the Sudanese Ba'ath Party. The plot was quickly crushed and its leaders imprisoned. It came amid the National Islamic Front regime's continuing purges of the regular army, which the Islamists distrusted as too secular and professional, and against a backdrop of deepening isolation after Bashir's support for Iraq in the Gulf War, a harsh new Islamic penal code, and severe economic crisis.

The regime consolidated its grip through the Revolutionary Command Council, the Popular Defence Forces, and a ruthless security apparatus, while prosecuting the war against the Sudan People's Liberation Army. The 15 April 1992 coding sits in the immediate aftermath of the March 1992 Ba'athist plot, in a period of arrests, purges, and continued conspiracy against Bashir's junta as it entered its third year in power.

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Researched

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Target identified in Coup Atlas research: Bashir crushed the March 1992 Ba'athist plot and consolidated power, ruling until 2019
RESEARCHED NAME
Key figures
Lieutenant General Omar al-Bashir (target)
Colonel Ahmed Khaled (March 1992 Ba'athist plot leader)
the Sudanese Ba'ath Party sympathizers in the army

Sources

The March 1992 coup attempt was led by Colonel Ahmed Khaled, a sympathiser of the Sudanese Ba'ath Party; the attempt was quickly crushed and the leaders imprisoned.
SOURCE REVIEWED Wikipedia: Coups d'etat in Sudan open source ↗
After the 1989 coup Bashir moved to consolidate an Islamist wing within the armed forces and was compelled to purge numerous officers with ideological or professional opposition to his rule, particularly Ba'athists, leftists, and technocratic officers.
SOURCE REVIEWED Sawab Center: Return of Extremism, Shadow Actors in Sudan's War open source ↗
With a ruthless and efficient security system and the support of the NIF and Muslim Brotherhood, the RCC imprisoned hundreds of political opponents and dismantled the judiciary as the most unpopular government in Sudan's modern history remained firmly in power.
SOURCE REVIEWED Britannica: Sudan under Bashir open source ↗
In March 1992 the Sudanese government announced that it was confiscating the property of the Mirghani family, reflecting the RCC's continued moves against perceived opponents in that period.
SOURCE REVIEWED University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: Sudan, Human Rights Since the 1989 Coup open source ↗

Editorial Note

Coded 15 Apr 1992 sits in the immediate aftermath of the March 1992 Ba'athist plot led by Col. Ahmed Khaled (quickly crushed, leaders imprisoned). Near-verified: the discrete plot is documented for March 1992, with the 15 Apr coding falling in its arrest/purge aftermath. Second of two Sudan records in this batch, split by phase from the 23 Aug 1991 context entry.

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
62504151992

How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.

Outcome and Target

Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Bashir crushed the March 1992 Ba'athist plot and consolidated power, ruling 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
Cline Center Coup d’État Project Dataset, v2.2.2
Peyton, Buddy, Joseph Bajjalieh, Michael Martin, and Andrea Gerald. 2026. Cline Center Coup d’État Project Dataset. Cline Center for Advanced Social Research. V.2.2.2. February 17. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. doi: 10.13012/B2IDB-9651987_V10
Open dataset DOI ↗
⚑ This citation establishes the coded baseline record; use the claim-level sources above for the researched narrative.

Baseline Source-Document Entries

CSP

Named in the baseline source document; no article citation was recorded.

The Guardian

“Sudan claims to have broken coup plot with soldiers’ arrest,” April 18, 1992

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