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image by Vincent Morley, 29 Mar 1997
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On 03 August 1975 a leftist coup d’etat led by Ali Soilih took
power in the Comoros.
A new flag was adopted on 12 November 1975 and was in use until 13 May 1978.
Jaume Ollé, 30 Mar 1997
According to an article in The Flag Bulletin (No. 174)
[tfb],
in 1975 the top two thirds of the flag became red to
symbolise the socialist ideology of the new regime. The positioning
of the crescent and stars was altered so that the crescent now
faced the bottom left of the flag with the stars grouped
in a diamond between its horns.
Stuart Notholt, 22 May 1997
This design was adopted shortly after independence in 1975. The
symbolism is the same as in the former flag although one of the four
main islands, Mayotte, remained under French rule.
My source for this image is Flags by Eric Inglefield [ing79],
where the proportions are stated to be 5:7.
Vincent Morley, 29 Mar 1997
The CHUWA party used a flag similar to the
1975 Comorian national flag (horizontally divided red-green, 2:1) but with
a thicker crescent and the four white stars placed vertically.
Ivan Sache, 18 Jul 2002
Most sources confirm the flag as
red over green with the stars forming a diamond (Smith [smi76],
Lux-Wurm [lux01], and a
Comorian post stamp). Lux-Wurm
[lux01], however, says the flag was in
proportion of 2:3 and not 5:7.
Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2002
image by Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2002
Hervé Calvarin in
Comores: un nouveau drapeau pour la réintégration d’Anjouan [clv02] shows a weird flag,
which might be the one reported by William Crampton in The World of Flags
(1990)
[cra90]. This flag is 5:7,
horizontally divided green over red (2:1), with a white crescent
pointing to the lower fly in canton and four white stars “inside”
the crescent, forming a square, as illustrated above.
Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2002
The description above contradicts
Crampton [cra90];
it would appear that Mr Crampton has erred.
Stuart Notholt, 22 May 1997
image by Ivan Sache and António Martins, 02 Dec 2005
These stamps (SG 182/83 and
198/99), both depict a flag with a red field
occupying the upper 2/3 of the flag and a red field beneath. On the red part,
near the hoist, is a white crescent with two rows of two five-pointed white
stars in each row. The red and green fields are apparently separated by a thin
white stripe.
Ron Lahav, 01 Feb 2005
