Mohamed Boudiaf
Mohamed Boudiaf was an Algerian independence leader and one of the founders of the National Liberation Front (FLN). He was born on 23 June 1919 in Ouled Madhi, in the wilaya of M'Sila. After almost 3 decades in exile, he returned in January 1992 to lead the country, and died on 29 June 1992 in Annaba.
Mohamed Boudiaf was an Algerian independence leader and one of the founders of the National Liberation Front (FLN). He was born on 23 June 1919 in Ouled Madhi, in the wilaya of M'Sila. After almost 3 decades in exile, he returned in January 1992 to lead the country, and died on 29 June 1992 in Annaba.
During the Second World War Boudiaf served in the French army and fought in Italy.
In 1945 he joined the Algerian People's Party (PPA), and later helped create its secret armed wing, the Special Organisation (OS). In 1954 he was one of the 6 leaders who planned the uprising of 1 November, which began the war of independence.
On 22 October 1956 French authorities diverted a plane carrying him and Ahmed Ben Bella. He stayed in prison until March 1962, and meanwhile the provisional government (GPRA) named him minister of state in 1958 and vice-president in 1961.
After independence he opposed Ben Bella and founded the Party of the Socialist Revolution (PRS) in 1962. Sentenced to death in 1964, he lived in exile and ran a brick factory in Kénitra, in Morocco. On 16 January 1992 he returned to Algiers to lead the High Council of State (HCE).
In June 1995 an Algiers court convicted Lembarek Boumaarafi, a member of his security guard, in connection with his death. Today the university of M'Sila bears his name.
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