Abdelkader Hachani

Abdelkader Hachani
Abdelkader Hachani
	1991 Algerian legislative election

Abdelkader Hachani (

Arabic: عبد القادر حشاني; 26 December 1956 – 22 November 1999) was a leading figure and founding member of the Islamic Salvation Front

(or FIS), an Algerian Islamic party.

Career

Following the arrests of

National Assembly elections

of December 1991; shortly afterwards, he was arrested on 22 January 1992.

As the Algerian Civil War raged, he was released in July 1997. The court handed him a sentence of five years, which he had already served waiting for the trial. He played a prominent role in negotiating the Islamic Salvation Army's (AIS) cease-fire of October 1997, but condemned President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's Civil Harmony Act.

Hachani was shot by an assassin in the waiting room of a dental clinic in the Bab El Oued district of Algiers on 22 November 1999, and subsequently died in hospital.^[1]^[2] In December, the government announced that it had arrested Fouad Boulemia, a GIA member, for the murder; Boulemia was convicted in a controversial trial, sentenced to death, and then released.

Hachani was trained as a petrochemical engineer. Within FIS, he was considered a member of the Djaz'ara (Algerianist) wing. He left four children behind.

References

^ Johnson, Douglas (26 November 1999). "Abdelkadar Hachani: Islamic leader with a vision of national reconciliation in Algeria". The Guardian.
^ "Islamist's death threatens Algeria peace process". BBC News. 24 November 1999.

[1] Johnson, Douglas (26 November 1999). "Abdelkadar Hachani: Islamic leader with a vision of national reconciliation in Algeria". The Guardian.

[2] "Islamist's death threatens Algeria peace process". BBC News. 24 November 1999.

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