- Jacques Doumro
Jacques Doumro was a
Chad ian general duringthe Tombalbaye Regime .Doumro joined the
French Army when he was 19 years old, and fought in the Second World War, [cite book|author=First, Ruth|title=Power in Africa|publisher=Pantheon Books|year=1970|pages=86|id=ISBN 0-394-44118-4] becoming anon-commissioned officer in theFrench Colonial Forces . [ [http://perso.orange.fr/unpara/gazette/2002_02/gazette022002.htm RÉSISTANCE et MAQUIS] ] With the independepndence of his country in1960 Doumro made a rapid career, becoming General and Chief-of-Staff of theChadian Armed Forces .Doumro gained popularity, especially among the students, for his firm stand against the President
François Tombalbaye regarding the question of the modernization of the army and the recruitment and establishment of a professional corps; so when the students of theFelix Eboué High School demonstrated in November1971 in the capital against the government, a prevalent slogan was a call for Doumro to take power: "Vive l'Armee, vive le General Doumro",cite book|author=Azevedo, Mario J.|title=Roots of Violence: A History of War in Chad|publisher=Routledge|year=1998|pages=118|id=ISBN 90-5699-582-0] raising for the first time the spectre of the entry of the military into the political scene.cite journal| last = Decalo| first = Samuel| title = Regionalism, Political Decay, and Civil Strife in Chad | journal = Journal of Modern African Studies| volume = 18| issue = 1| pages = 23–56| publisher = Cambridge University Press| date = March 1980]Doumro paid for the willingness shown to be flexible and to listen to the students complaints; once the demonstrations had ceased, Tombalbaye removed Doumro from his post and put him under
house arrest , replacing him with the ColonelFélix Malloum . Many purges in the military followed, and Doumro was arrested a second time between1973 and1975 . These constant purges eventually brought to Tombalbaye's fall, that was killed in 1975 in a military coup.Notes
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