Chadli Bendjedid
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Chadli Bendjedid was an Algerian military officer and politician who served as the third President of Algeria. His presidential term of office ran from 9 February 1979 to 11 January 1992.
Official portrait, 1979
Bendjedid during the war of independence in 1961
Bendjedid with other heads of state at the Cancun Summit in 1981
Chadli Bendjedid's portrait in the streets, 1984
1992 Algerian coup d'état
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The 1992 Algerian coup d'état took place on 11 January 1992. Concerned by the FIS victory in the first round of the 1991 parliamentary election, the army took action and cancelled the electoral proces
Chadli Bendjedid
…political survival strategy, Bendjedid then called for and began to implement a transition towards multi-party democracy. However, in 1992 the military intervened to stop elections from bringing the Islamist Front Islamique du Salut (FIS) to power, forcing Bendjedid out of office and sparking a long and bloody…
Algerian military deployed in the streets of Algiers after the military coup against the Islamists, 12 January 1992