Moussa Traoré

Traoré was born in Kayes, then in French Sudan, and served in the Malian Army from 1960. ^{1 2} As a lieutenant, he led the military ousting of President Modibo Keïta in the coup d'état of 19 November 1968, and thereafter served as head of state. ¹

Traoré ruled Mali for over two decades, first through the military and later through his UDPM party, and his forces fought the Agacher Strip War and faced the Tuareg rebellion that began in 1990. ¹ In March 1991 he was overthrown by popular protests and a further coup, led by Amadou Toumani Touré. ¹

Traoré was tried and sentenced to death for the killing of protesters — an estimated 300 died — and in 1999 he was once more condemned to death with his wife Mariam for economic crimes, the embezzlement of state funds; his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. ¹ Shortly before leaving office, on 29 May 2002, President Alpha Oumar Konaré pardoned the couple for the sake of national reconciliation. ¹ Traoré died in Bamako on 15 September 2020. ^{1 2}

Neither the English nor the Arabic article's text says anything about Traoré's religion; the articles file him under Malian Muslims, and Wikidata carries the values Islam and Sunni Islam on his single item. ^{1 3 2} Filings and a single structured item do not attest a school, so the museum records his faith as unknown and preserves the Sunni reading in the data file.

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