- Ali
Soilih M'Tsashiwa (Arabic: علي صويلح;
January 7, 1937 – May 29, 1978) was a
Comorian socialist revolutionary and
political figure who
served as the...
- when
Soilih and Said
Mohamed Jaffar,
whose adherents were
barely armed,
hired French mercenary Bob
Denard to
overthrow Ahmed Abdallah.
Soilih officially...
- Ali
Soilih, who had
turned toward socialist policies.
Soilih was
killed under mysterious cir****stances on 29 May 1978. The
official story that
Soilih was...
-
Mohamed Ali
Soilihi (born ca. 1950 in Mbeni,
Grande Comore) is a
Comorian politician from
Grande Comore who
served as Vice-President of
Union of the Comoros...
- long
before being ousted in a coup d'état by Ali
Soilih, an
atheist with an
Islamic background.
Soilih began with a set of
solid socialist ideals designed...
-
resulted in the
successful overthrow of the 3rd
President of the Comoros, Ali
Soilih M'Tshashiwa, on May 13, 1978. Led by
French mercenary Bob
Denard and Comorian...
- be used
after independence in 1975. The flag
changed in 1975
under Ali
Soilih. The
crescent was
moved and the
stars were
rearranged into a diamond. Two...
-
Soilih.
Making the
Comoros a
tempting target for
Denard were its
small size,
consisting of only
three islands in the
Indian Ocean. Moreover,
Soilih had...
- coup d'état on
August 3, 1975. Jaffar, in turn,
would be
overthrown by Ali
Soilih in 1976.
Abdallah (who had been
living in
exile Paris, France) was the nominal...
- 5
September 1975 and
became its
first president. In 1978,
president Ali
Soilih, who had a firm anti-French attitude, was
killed and
Ahmed Abdallah came...
