eyadéma in A Sentence

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    Eyadéma claimed later that he was the one who pulled the trigger killing Olympio, but this is not clearly established.

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    When protests in the Ewe region, Olympio's ethnic group, caused chaos in 1967, the military under Eyadéma deposed the government of Grunitzky.

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    Military power in Togo further increased with the 14 April 1967 coup d'état where Étienne Eyadéma deposed the government of Nicolas Grunitzky and ruled the country until 2005.

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    Étienne Eyadéma, who would claim power in 1967 and remain in office until 2005, claimed to have personally fired the shot that killed Olympio while Olympio tried to escape.

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    The Ewe people largely doubted the official story provided by Eyadéma and were largely excluded from positions of power with Grunitzky(who had a Polish father and an Atakpamé mother) and Antoine Meatchi(who was from the north of Togo) being from different ethnic groups.

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