Yemen Arab Republic, 1975 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 16 August 1975, during President Ibrahim al-Hamdi's aggressive centralization of the North Yemeni state and his campaign against the power of the tribal sheikhs. Al-Hamdi had taken power in the bloodless June 1974 Military Command Council coup that ended civilian rule in the Yemen Arab Republic, and he launched a Revolutionary Corrective Initiative aimed at building a strong central state and reducing the influence of the large tribes in political life and in the army. He removed the influential tribal figure Sinan Abu Luhum from army leadership and pushed rivals off the command council.
Just weeks before this date, on 27 July 1975, a day dubbed Army Day, al-Hamdi issued decrees removing several tribal sheikhs from military leadership and carried out a broad reorganization of the armed forces. These moves provoked resistance from tribal power centers bordering on rebellion. The August 1975 coding sits in this period of intense factional conflict and plotting around al-Hamdi's mid-1975 army purges.
Researched Details
Researched
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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
67808161975
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Al-Hamdi survived this period and continued centralizing power until his assassination in October 1977.
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
New York Times
South China Morning Post
Washington Post
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