Moustapha Lô

Moustapha Lô (died 15 June 1967) was a Senegalese man who attempted to assassinate Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor on 22 March 1967 at the Dakar Grand Mosque. Lô was convicted of treason, was sentenced to death by a Senegalese court and was executed by firing squad. Lô was the second of two people who have been executed by Senegal since its independence in 1960.^[1]

Notes

1. In a number of sources, Amnesty International reports that Lô was the first Senegalese execution, and that it took place in 1965, with Abdou N'Daffa Faye's execution being the most recent. Other sources contradict this information and place Lô's execution after Faye's in 1967.

References

• Elimane Fall, "La démocratie à l'épreuve", Jeune Afrique, no. 1760, 1994-10-05
• Keesing's Publications (1972). Africa Independent: A Survey of Political Developments (New York: Scribner) p. 236