Tavio Amorin

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Octave Tavio Tobias Ayao Amorin (20 November 1958 – 29 July 1992) was a Togolese socialist politician. He led the Pan-African Socialist Party, the ideology of which was influenced by the French Communist Party.[1]

Amorin was born in Lomé.[1] He was a member of the High Council of the Republic, formed in 1991 as the transitional legislature.[2] Amorin was shot in Lomé by security forces in July 1992 and died in a Paris hospital a few days later.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Decalo, Samuel. Historical Dictionary of Togo. 3rd ed. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1996. (ISBN 0-8108-3073-6)
  2. ^ John R. Heilbrunn, "Togo: The National Conference and Stalled Reform", in Political Reform in Francophone Africa (1997), ed. John F. Clark and David E. Gardinier, page 239.
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