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The Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt was an attempt to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago, instigated on Friday, 27 July 1990.Over the course of six days, Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical extremist Islamist group, held hostages (including Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and other government officials) at the Red House and at the headquarters of the state-owned national television ...
Yasin Abu Bakr (born Lennox Philip; 19 October 1941 [1] [2] – 21 October 2021) [3] was a Trinidadian religious leader who led the Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim group in Trinidad and Tobago. The group staged an attempted coup d’état in 1990.
The organisation is responsible for the Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt of July 1990, in which its leader, Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, led members of the Jamaat in an attempted coup d'état against the unpopular Government of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt was an attempt to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago, instigated on Friday, 27 July 1990.Over the course of six days, Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim organization, held hostages (including Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and other government officials) at the Red House and at the headquarters of Trinidad and Tobago Television.
Events in the year 1990 in Trinidad and Tobago. Incumbents ... 27 July – 1 August – Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt; Deaths. 1 August – Leo Des ...
Social unrest has shaped the development of Trinidad and Tobago since the middle of the ... the Islamist Jamaat al Muslimeen staged an attempted coup d'état in July ...
In response, a portion of the Trinidad Defense Force, led by Raffique Shah and Rex Lassalle, mutinied and took hostages at the army barracks at Teteron; The mutiny was contained and the mutineers surrendered on April 25; Jamaat al Muslimeen Coup Attempt (1990) Trinidad and Tobago: Jamaat al Muslimeen: Victory. Coup suppression
According to the Commission of Enquiry into the attempted coup of 1990 in Trinidad and Tobago, Clarke was enlisted to function as a go-between between the insurgent Jamaat-al-Muslimeen and the T&T army to relay the insurgents' demands and the army's responses. The Commission's report stated: