1985 Liberian coup attempt

1985 coup attempt in Liberia 1985 Liberian coup d'état attempt 12 November 1985 Monrovia, Liberia Coup attempt failed. Liberia Liberia AFL coup plottersLiberia NPFLAlleged support:Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Liberia Samuel Doe Liberia Gen. Thomas Quiwonkpa Unknown 500–600 The 1985 Liberian coup d'état attempt was staged by General Thomas Quiwonkpa, who had been a leader of the 1980 coup along with President Samuel Doe and later founder of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL). On 12 November 1985, one month after elections were held, Quiwonkpa, supported by about two dozen heavily armed men, covertly entered Liberia through Sierra Leone, and launched a coup against Doe. The coup resulted in a disastrous failure and Quiwonkpa was captured and on November 15 was killed and mutilated by Krahn soldiers loyal to Doe,Ellis Stephen 2002 The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Roots of an African Civil War C. Hurst & Co. 1-85065-417-4 146 who reportedly ate parts of his body.The World Today Series: Africa 2012 Dickovick J. Tyler 2008 Stryker-Post Publications Lanham, Maryland 978-1-61048-881-5 registration https://archive.org/details/africa20120000dick Samuel Doe also announced in a radio and television broadcast that anyone found on the streets after a 6 p.m. curfew would be considered a rebel and executed immediately. Following the coup attempt, Doe's forces massacred thousands of civilians in retaliation.Peterson Dave 1996 Liberia: Crying for Freedom https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.1996.0035 Journal of Democracy 7 2 148–158 10.1353/jod.1996.0035 1086-3214 subscription References External links Liberia – Election and Coup Attempt – 1985 collapsed Category:1980s coups d'état 1985 Category:1985 in Liberia Category:Cold War rebellions Category:1985 conflicts Category:Military history of Liberia Category:November 1985 in Africa Category:Incidents of cannibalism Category:Cannibalism in Africa