Liberia: Thomas Quiwonkpa and the Coup That Failed, This Day in History

Monrovia — Liberians woke up in the early Tuesday morning hours of November 12, 1985 to the voice of Thomas Quiwonkpa who announced that he had toppled the government of Samuel Kanyon Doe.

Quiwonkpa was one of the original members of the successful April 12, 1980 coup d'etat that brought Master Sargeant Samuel Kanyon Doe to power and ended decades of Americo-Liberian rule - and the reign of late President William R. Tolbert.

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