 This action, according to several former soldiers, caused the 1994 coup d'etat to be "fait accompli" because there was no one to counter the army.On the morning of 22 July 1994, when Jawara was at his office in the State House, he received a report that armed soldiers were approaching.They far outnumbered the contingent of presidential guards at the State House that day, and so Jawara quickly fled.