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=== Assassination === | === Assassination === | ||
In early March 1977, Ngouabi received a letter from his predecessor, Alphonse Massamba-Debat. He advised him to resign, because the seriousness of the country's situation required it.8 On March 3, Ngouabi received the former president and his wife in audience. A few days later, in a public meeting organized by the URMC, he lashed out at French imperialism, whom he accused of being responsible for the economic difficulties in the Congo. He also said: "When your country is dirty and lacks lasting peace, you cannot achieve its cleanliness and unity except by washing it with your blood." | |||
In January 1978, the revolutionary court opened a trial against 42 people accused of complicity in the murder. Ten of them were sentenced to death and executed on February 7, 1978. Captain Barthelemý Kikadidi, who managed to escape on the day of the murder (March 18, 1977), was sentenced to death in absentia for leading the platoon that attacked the Ngouabi's life. On February 13, 1978, he was found and executed on the spot by the army. | |||
A Military Committee of the Party (CMP) was named to head an interim government with the conservative Colonel Joachim Yhombi-Opango to serve as Head of State. | A Military Committee of the Party (CMP) was named to head an interim government with the conservative Colonel Joachim Yhombi-Opango to serve as Head of State. |