Krim Belkacem
Krim Belkacem was one of the 6 leaders who launched the war of independence on 1 November 1954. He led the Algerian delegation at Évian and signed the Évian Accords on 18 March 1962. Born on 14 September 1922 in the village of Tizra Aïssa, in Aït Yahia Moussa, he died on 18 October 1970 in Frankfurt, in Germany.
Krim Belkacem was one of the 6 leaders who launched the war of independence on 1 November 1954. He led the Algerian delegation at Évian and signed the Évian Accords on 18 March 1962. Born on 14 September 1922 in the village of Tizra Aïssa, in Aït Yahia Moussa, he died on 18 October 1970 in Frankfurt, in Germany.
His father was a caïd, a local official. After army service from 1943 to 1945, he joined the PPA of Messali Hadj.
In 1947 he took to the maquis in Kabylia, and French courts sentenced him to death in absentia. In 1954 he joined the group of 6 and headed the Kabylia zone.
Krim attended the Soummam Congress in August 1956 and joined the movement's executive committee. From 1958 he was vice president of the GPRA, the provisional government. There he was in turn minister of the armed forces, foreign affairs and the interior.
After independence he opposed Ahmed Ben Bella and then Houari Boumediene, and went into exile. In April 1969 a revolutionary court in Oran sentenced him to death in absentia.
His remains were reburied in the martyrs' section of El Alia, in Algiers, on 24 October 1984. On 19 March 2026, Victory Day, a ceremony honoured him at his memorial in Tadmaït, near Tizi Ouzou.
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