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Samuel Kanyon Doe was born on 6 May 1951 in Tuzon, a small inland village in Grand Gedeh County. His family belonged to the Krahn people , an important minority indigenous group in this area. [ 4 ] At the age of sixteen, Doe finished elementary school and enrolled at a Baptist junior high school in Zwedru .
Samuel Doe: Participants: 17 members of the Armed Forces (NCOs and soldiers) Outcome: Coup succeeds William Tolbert is overthrown and executed. Thirteen members of the Tolbert administration are executed on 22 April 1980. The People's Redemption Council is established by Samuel Doe to rule the country. First Liberian Civil War begins.
On 12 April 1980, Samuel K. Doe led a group of 17 soldiers in a coup d'état that overthrew and killed then-president William Tolbert. [1] [2] By 16 April 1980, Doe's forces were able to begin consolidating power. [5] The group formed the People's Redemption Council as the supreme legislative and executive power with Doe as its chairman. [2]
The First Liberian Civil War was the first of two civil wars within the West African nation of Liberia which lasted between 1989 and 1997. President Samuel Doe's regime of totalitarianism and widespread corruption led to calls for withdrawal of the support of the United States, by the late 1980s. [2]
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