1975 Chadian coup d'état

1975 Chadian coup d'état
	Part of the Chadian Civil War (1965–1979)
Date	13–15 April 1975
Location	Chad
Result	Coup leader seized power; President N'Garta Tombalbaye killed and replaced by Noël Milarew Odingar as interim Head of State under a Supreme Military Council; Previously purged Officers reinstated;
Belligerents
Government of Chad Compagnies Tchadiennes de Securité (CTS);	Supreme Military Council (CSM) Chadian Armed Forces (FAT);
Commanders and leaders
N'Garta Tombalbaye †; (President of Chad) ; Col. Selebiani; (Head of the CTS)	Noël Milarew Odingar; (Major, leader of the CSM and FAT) ; Lt. Dimtolaum; (Lieutenant and the commander of local army units) ; Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué; (Officer and a key leader of coup)
Strength
Unknown	Unknown

The 1975 Chadian coup d'état was in considerable part generated by the growing distrust of the president of Chad, François Tombalbaye, for the army. This distrust came in part from the Chadian Armed Forces (FAT) incapacity to deal with the rebellion that was inflaming the Muslim north from when the rebel insurgent group FROLINAT had been formed in 1966.