In October 1948 he headed a military junta which deposed Bustamente and Odría was proclaimed provisional president.
Than Shwe headed a military junta until he stepped down in 2011 and many believe he remains powerful behind the scenes.
The centre-left ALP became more sympathetic to the communists and Labor leader Arthur Calwell stridently denounced South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky as a "fascist dictator" and a "butcher" ahead of his 1967 visit —at the time Ky was the chief of the Vietnam Air Force and headed a military junta.
Lt. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma, the head of a junta that toppled the government of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah in 1997 but who is now allied with him, claimed on a Freetown radio station that his men had taken back Masiaka.
Because this is Egypt in early 2012, a year on from the toppling of former president Hosni Mubarak, the field marshal must be General Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of a junta under whose watch more than 100 revolutionary demonstrators have been killed and thousands more have been dragged before military tribunals.
After the presentations, people voted for the continuation of the Viceroy, alone or at the head of a junta, or his dismissal.
Thơ was appointed to head a civilian cabinet by the military junta of General Dương Văn Minh, which came to power after overthrowing and assassinating Ngô Đình Diệm, the nation's first president.
There was no real change, however, until 1948, when a revolt by young army officers installed a junta headed by Maj.
On March 23, however, young army officers seized the government and installed a junta headed by General Ríos Montt, who had been denied the presidency in 1974.
It was a dark period for the country and the church, as a junta headed by Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic, employed torture and murder in a self-declared crusade against godless communism.
