Emmanuel Bodjollé (born 1928) is a

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lese former military officer who was Chairman of the nine-member Insurrection Committee that overthrew the government of

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Sylvanus Olympio on 13 January 1963.

Biography

Bodjollé, a former master-sergeant in the French army, had been among a group of around 300 soldiers who on discharge from the French services had not been integrated into the Togolese army. He led a conspiracy of around thirty other former

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, who arrested the ministers of Olympio's government. The coup saw former president Olympio shot dead at the gate of the US embassy compound by Etienne Eyadéma, later known as Gnassingbé Eyadéma, a later president of Togo. Bodjollé's coup installed Nicolas Grunitzky as Togolese leader.

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