Jacques Doumro was a

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ian general during

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. Doumro joined the

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when he was nineteen years old, and fought in the

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, becoming a

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in the

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/ref> With the independence of his country in 1960 Doumro made a rapid career, becoming General and Chief-of-Staff of the

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. Doumro gained popularity, especially among students, for his firm stand against the

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regarding the question of the modernization of the army and the recruitment and establishment of a professional corps; so when the students of the

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demonstrated in November 1971 in the capital against the government, a prevalent slogan was a call for Doumro to take power: "''Vive l'Armee, vive le General Doumro''", raising for the first time the spectre of the entry of the military into the political scene. 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

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, replacing him with the Colonel

Félix Malloum Félix Malloum Ngakoutou Bey-Ndi ( '; 10 September 1932 – 12 June 2009), better known as Félix Malloum, was a Chadian military officer and politician who served as the second President of Chad from 1975 to 1978. A native of southern Chad, ...

. Many purges in the military followed, and Doumro was arrested a second time between 1973 and 1975. These constant purges eventually led to the fall of Tombalbaye, who was killed in 1975 in a military coup.

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