2023-07-04 09:45:01
After taking power with the Military Committee for National Recovery (CMRN) on April 3, 1984, Lansana Conté faced at the beginning of July 1985 his first attempt at destabilization which came from within his camp.
First Prime Minister, then Minister of Education, Diarra Traoré was one of the soldiers who formed the Military Committee for National Recovery (CMRN) and who seized power at the death of Sekou Touré on March 26, 1984.
While he is traveling to Lomé in Togo for the summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a press release broadcast on Guinean Radio Television on the night of Thursday, July 04 1985 announces the seizure of power by the “Supreme Council of State” chaired by Colonel Diarra Traoré.
The response is organized in the barracks to defend the power of General Conté and the putschists fail in their attempt to seize power. Lansana Conté returned to Conakry on Friday July 05, 1985. Diarra Traoré was arrested with several other dignitaries of the regime, including among others: Captain Amadou Kouyaté Secretary of State for Security, Abraham Kabassan Keita Secretary of State for Rural Development, Lancinet Keita permanent secretary of CMRN…
A trial was opened against the perpetrators of this coup attempt on July 7, 1985 and will be held until July 19, when Colonel Diarra and his main accomplices would have already been executed. At the end of this trial, 175 civil and military personalities will be condemned, including 59 to the death penalty, 80 to life imprisonment.
On September 16, 2019 Amadou Damaro Camara, current president of the Guinean National Assembly, published an essay entitled ” Colonel Diarra Traoré’s failed coup where he recounts this attempt with which he was associated.
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