The emperor Bokassa have been overthrown by the French commados on September 1979. He escaped from Central Africa to Ivory Coast and later he went into exile to France. In 1986, he returned to the Republic and was arrested when he was charged with murder treason, cannibalism and others. Bokassa was sentenced to the capital punishment, which was changed to life sentence. As a result of the amnesty in 1993, he was released and died in 1996 because of a heart attack.