1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état

1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état
Date7 November 1982
Location
Upper Volta
Result Coup successful, government overthrown and replaced
Belligerents
Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress Council of Popular Salvation
Communist Officers' Group
Supported by:
Trade unions
Commanders and leaders
Saye Zerbo Gabriel Somé Yorian
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo
Thomas Sankara
Blaise Compaoré
Henri Zongo
Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani

The 1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état took place in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) on 7 November 1982. The coup, led by Colonel Gabriel Somé Yorian and a slew of other junior officers within the military, many of them political radicals, overthrew the regime of Colonel Saye Zerbo. Zerbo had previously taken power just under two years prior to his own downfall.

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