Bokassa's massacre of the children
Protests about expensive school uniforms in the Central African Republic eventually led to Jean-BΓ©del Bokassa's fall from power in 1979.
Protests about expensive school uniforms in the Central African Republic eventually led to Jean-BΓ©del Bokassa's fall from power in 1979. The demonstrations started with school children, but soon widened to involve university students. Bokassa ordered brutal reprisals and within months his regime had lost its international support and French troops had invaded. AndrΓ© Nalke Dorogo was a university student at the time and he as been speaking to Ashley Byrne about the events of that year.
Image: Jean-BΓ©del Bokassa on the day he crowned himself Emperor in 1977. Credit:Pierre Guillaud/AFP/Getty Images.
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