Krim Belkacem

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Krim Belkacem
Krim Belkacem
Photo of Krim Belkacem, c. 1945
Born(1922-09-14)September 14, 1922
Tizi Ouzou, French Algeria
DiedOctober 18, 1970(1970-10-18) (aged 48)
Frankfurt, West Germany
NationalityAlgerian
Other namesSi Rabah
Known forAlgerian War, Évian Accords
Signature

Krim Belkacem (

Arabic: عبد الكريم بلقاسم or كريم بلقاسم) (September 14, 1922, Aït Yahia Moussa, Tizi Ouzou Province – October 18, 1970) was the historic leader of the National Liberation Front during the Algerian War. As vice-president of the GPRA, he was the sole signatory of the Évian Accords on the Algerian side. After the 1965 coup d'état
, he went into exile and was assassinated in Germany in 1970.

Biography

Krim was born in the village of

maquisards
).

During the Algerian War of Independence, Krim was chief of the FLN's 3rd Wilaya, Kabylie and its surrounding area. After his important role at the Soummam Congress—in which the FLN formalized its revolutionary program—Krim became one of the most important and powerful of all the FLN chiefs.

Political Bureau of the FLN in July 1962 by Ahmed Ben Bella, Houari Boumédiène, and Mohamed Khider
.

Political views and assassination

After the coup d'état of June 19, 1965, he returned to the opposition. Accused of having organized an attack against Boumediene in April 1967, manipulated and betrayed by part of his entourage, he was sentenced to death in absentia.

According to his daughter Karima, in an interview with El Moudjahid on March 25, 1998, Belkacem definitively gave up politics and went into exile in August 1967: "On August 4, 1967," she says, "he and the family hastily packed some effects into the family Volkswagen and drove all night to Morocco. The next day, he was sentenced in absentia." On October 17, 1967, he created with friends including Slimane Amirat, Colonels Amar Ouamrane and Mohand Oulhadj, the Movement for the Defense of the Algerian Revolution (MDRA), an underground party intended to fight against the Boumediene regime.

InterContinental Hotel in 2012

Two years later, on October 18, 1970, he was found strangled with his tie in a room at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Frankfurt, presumably by Algerian military security agents.[4]

See also

  • Algerian war
  • List of assassinated people

References

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  1. ^ a b Cheurfi, Achour, La Classe Politique Algerienne, Casbah Editions, Alger, 2006 - p 230
  2. ^ Cheurfi, Achour, La Classe Politique Algerienne, Casbah Editions, Alger, 2006 - p 231
  3. ^ Ottaway, Professor Marina; Ottaway, David; Ottaway, Marina (December 15, 1970). "Algeria: The Politics of a Socialist Revolution". University of California Press – via Google Books.
  4. ISBN 978-0-300-10881-1
    .
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