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Title: | Sierra Leone: The Militariat Strikes Back |
Author: | Riley, Steve |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 72 |
Pages: | 287-292 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | coups d'état 1997 military regimes Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249708704260 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4379836824462169A5E4 |
Abstract: | West Africa has seen a number of attempted and successful coups d'état in the 1990s led by relatively junior officers and 'other ranks' who have claimed populist or transformatory goals on assuming office but have failed to live up to these early expectations. Such coups are described by Jimmy Kandeh (1996) as a product of the 'militariat', a social group within the military who lack the clientelist ties of more senior officers. Major Johnny Paul Koroma's 25 May 1997 coup d'état in Freetown, Sierra Leone, would seem to be another example of the militariat in action. This article discusses the origins of the coup, the background of its leaders, the coup itself, justifications given for the coup, domestic and international reactions to the coup, the losses sustained by many Sierra Leoneans, and the aftermath of the coup. Bibliogr. |