Corrective Move
Appearance
1969 South Yemen coup d'état | |||||||
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Part of the Arab Cold War | |||||||
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No deaths |
The Corrective Move[1] (Arabic: الحركة التصحيحية, romanized: al-ḥaraka at-taṣḥīḥiyya), officially referred to as the "Glorious Corrective Move"[2] and often referred to as the "Corrective Step", was the takeover of the Yemeni National Liberation Front by the Marxist faction led by Abdel Fattah Ismail and Salim Rubai Ali, in an internal bloodless coup on 22 June 1969 that overthrew the Nasserist President Qahtan al-Shaabi.[1] The Marxist takeover later led to the creation of the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), and South Yemen's transformation into a socialist state.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Burrowes, R.D. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Yemen. Scarecrow Press. p. 390. ISBN 9780810855281. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ^ Brehony, N. (2013). Yemen Divided: The Story of a Failed State in South Arabia. I. B. Tauris. p. 45. ISBN 9781780764917. Retrieved 2015-08-13.