A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… government were challenged in 1980 by student-led, anti-government demonstrations, which were brutally put down, … was not ready for democracy. In early 1991, student-led, anti-government rioting broke out again, but this time … supported it. On 26 March 1991, after 4 days of intense anti-government rioting, a group of 17 military officers …