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Bokassa, Jean-Bedel

Government leader of Central African Rep. 1966-1979
(22.02.1921 Bobangui/ZAR - 3.11.1996 Bangui/ZAR)
Bokassa was fighting in General de Gaulles 'Free French Forces' for freeing France from the German occupation. After the war he remained in the French forces, till David Dacko, president of the newly independent Centralafrican Republic called him to become head of the CAR-forces. Bokassa thanked him for this award by removing him from power and declaring himself on the 1.01.1966 president of CAR. Later he followed his personal hero Napoleon I and crowned himself in 1977 emperor. Following substantial evidence, that Bokassa himself participated in the massacre of more than hundred schoolchildren by his presidential guard, French paratroopers were sent to remove him from power and to reinstate the ousted president David Dacko. Bokassa went first to Cote d´Ivoire, later to France into exile. He was sentenced to death in absentia in 1980, but despite this serious charges he went back to CAR in 1986. He was arrested and sentenced to death, but later the death sentences was converted into a 20 year jail term. 1993 he was released from jail.