Abdelhamid Mehri
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Abdelhamid Mehri | |
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| Born | April 1926 Constantine, French Algeria |
| Died | January 30, 2012 (aged 85) Algiers, Algeria |
| Service/ | National Liberation Front |
| Other work | Politician |
Abdelhamid Mehri (April 1926 – 30 January 2012) was an Algerian resistance fighter, soldier and politician.[1][2]
Born into a destitute family in
col. Houari Boumédiène. In 1979, soon after Boumédiène's death, he was made member of the FLN's central committee and slowly rose in the ranks under president Chadli Bendjedid. After the 1988 October riots in Algeria, he succeeded hardliner Mohamed Cherif Messaâdia
as FLN secretary-general.
After the subsequent change to a multiparty system, and the 1992 military coup, he brought the FLN into the opposition, and supported the Sant'Egidio platform urging national reconciliation with the Islamist current and the FIS as a solution for the Algerian Civil War, in a clear challenge to the éradicateur military elite that influenced Algerian politics behind the scenes. Soon after, he was gradually ousted from the party's central committee, which thereafter returned to supporting the security establishment. He died, aged 85, in Algiers.
References
- ^ Abdelhamid Mehri Archived January 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Zoom Algérie (in French)
- ^ Rabah Beldjenna, "Abdelhamid Mehri est décédé lundi à Alger", El Watan, 30 January 2012 (in French)
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