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How did Olympio die?[edit]

Time magazine wrote an article in January 1963 that gives a somewhat detailed account of the assassination. It can be found at:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940219-1,00.html

I'm not quite skilled enough in Wikipedia to incorporate this into the Olympio article yet. If anyone is, feel free to go at it. Also, the papers of ambassador Leon Poullada at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library may contain additional details on the assassination. See...

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Archives+and+Manuscripts/fa_poullada.htm

Westwind273 15:13, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Improvements[edit]

Hey guys, I just did a copy-edit. Further improvements can be made, including adding (a lot) more citations, and reducing the size of the quotation given (or incorporating it into the text). Relevant tags added. --Samy85 (talk) 08:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See Olympio on Meet the Press at http://www.ufctogo.com/Sylvanus-Olympio-face-aux-1864.html --Westwind273 (talk) 08:01, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There should also be a page on the Olympio family, who came from Brazil and were one of the foremost families of Togo. 95.26.205.205 (talk) 12:23, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

General Rewrite[edit]

I did a general rewrite of the page and added a bunch of content. I retained almost all of the content from the previous page, but one part I deleted. "Opposition leaders, such as Anani Santos, Antoine Meatchi and Nicolas Grunitzky were either jailed in Mango prison or exiled to Ghana and Benin. Using "Ablode Sodja" militia, the president squashed political dissent. ReferenceSee Koffigoh Commission Report, 2005 and Livre Blanc (July 1963), the National Report on political events leading to President Olympio's death. Olympio's allies in the Parliament testified for this report." I could find no other mention of Ablode Sodja militias in reliable sources, and the "reference" is plagiarized from another source which is quite unreliable. Regardless, the section did not meet basic standards and so I deleted it. If anyone wants it back in, please find a reliable source and add it in. Thank you. AbstractIllusions (talk) 21:43, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnicity[edit]

It is mentioned he has some Afro-Brazilian background on his father's side. But what indigenuous ethnicty(ies) did he come from? Ewe, Tem, Tchamba...? --Criticalthinker (talk) 01:18, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]