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a leather crop. According to Seyni, it was only the physical intervention of several
Ministry employees which stopped the beating. At the same time, Abdoulaye ordered increasingly severe measures against opposition parties, culminating in the arrest of four senior party leaders in April 1998, including former prime minister
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independent paper, arrested, following the paper's accusation that the
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When Maïnassara, who had come to power in a 1996 military coup, was assassinated by the army on 9 April 1999, Souley
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