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carried out his coup d'Ă©tat in 1965. Bokassa appointed him as an ambassador, first to Canada and then to France. In 1979, he carried out a press conference where he denounced his government for carrying out a massacre of children, resigned and formed an opposition group. After
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Bangui was sent away from the CAR by
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reported that reliable witnesses had told him that
Emperor Bokassa had personally participated in the killing of the students. He resigned his ambassadorial post as well as his military rank, claimed asylum in France and announced his formation of the
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