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The Red House was the site of yet
another tragic event in the nation’s
history: 1990 attempted coup. On July
27, 1990, members of the Jamaat Al

Muslimeen attacked the Red House.

On Friday 27, July 1990 Yasin Abu Bakr
along with Bilaal Abdullah and 114 of

his followers stormed the Red House

Yasin Abu Bakr and attempted to stage a coup d’ etat
and overthrow the government of

Trinidad and Tobago.

He and his men shot a single police
officer present at St. Vincent Street and

then exploded a car bomb that set fire
to sections of the Red House before
they stormed into the Red House with
guns; disrupting the proceedings that

were being conducted.

The Honourable A.N.R. Robinson, the
Prime Minister was asked to order the
Trinidad and Tobago
Defense Force security forces to stand down. Instead,
he said: ‘These are murderers and
torturers. Attack with full force!’ After
these words the Prime Minister was

shot in his right knee by one of the
attackers. He was then left on floor,
bleeding from his wounds.

The Red House suffered gravely from
this invasion since the building was
shot at and even shelled. Bullet holes
were visible on walls, doors, windows

A.N.R. Robinson, the and the ceiling of the Chamber. There
Prime Minister of
Trinidad and Tobago was a gaping hole at the southern end
of the building on the ground floor,

made by a B-300 weapon fired on the
night of July 28.

Seven people were killed in the Red

House as a result of the attack on the
building