Ruler · 1939 – 2009
João Bernardo Vieira
Lived 1939 – 2009; politician. President of Guinea-Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), 1980 – 1984 and 2 more terms.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.
- Lived
- 1939 – 2009
- 70 years
- In office
- 23 years
- 3 reigns
- Lines
- 1
- Guinea-Bissau
- Left it
- left office alive
- read off the dates alone
President of Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau · the 2nd, 4th and 10th of 18 dated reigns · 1973 – 2025
João Bernardo Vieira1980 – 1984João Bernardo Vieira1984 – 1999
João Bernardo Vieira2005 – 2009.jpg/120px-Guinea_Bissaus_interim_President_Raimundo_Pereira_(cropped).jpg)
Reigned 1980 – 1984 · 4 years · came to it aged 41 · term 1 of 3
- Came to it
- seized power
- Left it
- left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1984; they died in 2009
On 14 November 1980, Vieira toppled the government of Luís Cabral in a bloodless military coup, which initial reports credited to racial strife between the black population of Guinea-Bissau and the mulatto population of the related Republic of Cape Verde, embodied in the Cabo-Verdian origin of Presi…
Reigned 1984 – 1999 · 15 years · came to it aged 45 · term 2 of 3
- Left it
- deposedread from the ruler's own article
He was ousted at the end of the 1998–1999 civil war and went into exile.
Reigned 2005 – 2009 · 4 years · came to it aged 66 · term 3 of 3
- Left it
- killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; gunshot wound; deliberate murder
the article also: killed
Vieira was shot dead by soldiers on 2 March 2009, apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast at army headquarters that killed Guinea-Bissau's military chief General Batista Tagme Na Waie hours before.
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