Babiker an-Nur Osman

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Babiker an-Nur Osman ( Babikr an-Nur 'Uthman , Arabic بابكر النور عثمان, DMG Bābikr an-Nūr ʿUṯmān ; born 1935 , died 1971 ) was briefly (1971) president of Sudan , but was executed after a few days.

history

Babiker an-Nur Osman was educated in an Ahliyya school , which in the colonial times had the goal of using education in the fight against the colonial rulers. He became a colonel and was in 1967 the communist-minded Revolutionary Command Council (Revolutionary Command Council, RCC) the movement of the Free Officers (Free Officers Movement), who initially even Gaafar Nimeiry was encouraged as this clique in the coup against Ismail al-Azhari was involved. The free officers movement was inspired by a group of the same name run by Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt .

He was even deputy prime minister until November 16, 1970, but was dismissed due to tensions with Numairi. His successor, Commander Haschim al-Atta, and another official, Faruk Osman Hamdallah, were more nationalistic. On July 19, 1971, Hashim al-Atta organized a coup and overthrew Numairi. At that time, Babiker an-Nur Osman and Hamdallah were in London for medical treatment . Al-Atta established a seven-member Revolutionary Council chaired by Babiker an-Nur. So he was nominally for three days from July 19 to 22, 1971 President of Sudan. Osman and Hamdallah returned immediately, but were intercepted by Libyan planes in Khartoum on their return flight ; Egypt gathered part of its troops to Khartoum and the supporters of Numairi started a counterattack after Numairi had managed to escape and after bloody fighting he regained control. Libya handed over to-Nur and Hamdallah to Numairi's forces and, along with al-Atta and others involved in the coup, were tried in a court martial and shot immediately; three civilians, the communists Abdel Khalid Mahgoub (General Secretary of the Communist Sudanese Party), Shafie Ahmad al-Shaykh (General Secretary of the Union) and Joseph U. Garang (Minister of State for the Southern Government) were hanged.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berridge, 2015: 122.
  2. ^ Warburg, 2013: 122.
  3. ^ Warburg, 2013: 131.

literature

  • Gabriel Warburg: Islam, Nationalism and Communism in a Traditional Society: The Case of Sudan. Routledge, 2013: 122, 125, 132. ISBN 1135164851 , 9781135164850
  • WJ Berridge: Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan: The 'Khartoum Springs' of 1964 and 1985. A Modern History of Politics and Violence. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015: ISBN 1472574036 , 9781472574039

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personal data
SURNAME an-Nur Osman, Babiker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Babikir an-Nur; Babikr an-Nur 'Uthman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudanese politician, President of Sudan (1971)
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
DATE OF DEATH 1971