Faysal Abd al-Latif al-Shaabi (; 1935 – 2 April 1970) was briefly the

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of the

People's Republic of South Yemen South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, was a country in South Arabia that existed in what is now southeast Yemen from 1967 until its unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 199 ...

, from 6 April 1969 until the political coup (

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) that led to Salim Ali Rubai's ascendance to power on 22 June 1969. Al-Shaabi was appointed prime minister by

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Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi. After being ousted, al-Shaabi was kept under

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, but was moved to a detention camp at the end of March 1970. On 3 April 1970, the government radio in Aden broadcast a report that al-Shaabi "was fatally wounded when he tried to escape the detention camp.""Ex-Premier Fatally Shot"
''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', April 4, 1970, p2

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1935 births 1970 deaths Prime ministers of South Yemen Foreign ministers of South Yemen Nasserists Yemeni Arab nationalists Yemeni socialists People from Lahij Governorate South Yemen independence activists Leaders ousted by a coup Industry and trade ministers of Yemen {{Yemen-politician-stub Muslim socialists