Mansour Rashid El-Kikhia
Mansour Rashid El-Kikhia | |
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Benghazi, Libya | |
Died | after 10 December 1993 |
Body discovered | October 2012 |
Occupation | Minister of Foreign Affairs for Libya |
Known for | forced disappearance and subsequent death under unclear circumstances |
Mansour Rashid Kikhia (also spelled Mansur,
Biography
He was born in
In 1962, he joined the Libyan Embassy in France and then, in Algeria in 1963. He was made Libyan General Consul to the UN office in Geneva (1963-1967) and a member of the Libyan Mission to the United Nations in 1968.
After the
He moved to the United States in 1980 and applied for American citizenship. He was married to an American, Baha Omary Khikia, where they lived in Vienna, Virginia. During exile, he founded the Libyan Human Rights Association in 1984. Two years later, he established the Libyan National Alliance and was elected as secretary general.[4]
Disappearance in Egypt and Discovery of Body
On 10 December 1993, he vanished mysteriously after participating in an
Khikia was provided a state funeral in Benghazi and memorial service in his honour on 3 December 2012.
Egyptian government accusations
The similarity between Reda Helal and Kikhia cases has raised widespread suspicion about the involvement of high-ranking Egyptian officials. Kikhia's lawyer does not rule out Libyan and American involvement in his disappearance.[9] The recent arrest in London of a highly respected Egyptian engineer, Professor Momdouh Hamza, has implicated four top Egyptian officials with close ties to the Mubarak family and re-opened the rumor mill in Cairo. For years Egyptians have heard of forced disappearance of public figures elsewhere in the region (e.g. Iraq, Syria and Libya), but not their own.
Personal life
He was the cousin of Libyan-American academic Mansour Omar El-Kikhia, whose father, Omar Pasha Mansour El Kikhia, was the first prime minister of Cyrenaica.
See also
- List of kidnappings
- List of solved missing person cases
- List of unsolved deaths
- Reda Helal
References
- ^ Dr Saad Eddin Ibrahim, "The Case of a Missing Egyptian Journalist," Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine Ibn Khaldun center for development studies (ICDS) (2000).
- ^ Current World Leaders, Volume 24. International Academy at Santa Barbara. 4 June 2008.
- ^ Alnajjar, Tareq (1956), Who Kidnapped the Former Libyan Minister for Foreign Affairs in Egypt, Libya Watanona, retrieved 22 September 2019
- ^ "Who is Mansour Al-Kikhia?". The Libya Observer. 26 July 2017.
- ^ "Egyptian court issues judgment for Egyptian Ministry of Interior on compensation for Mansur El-Kikhia disappearance," Archived 2005-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Arabic News.com (4/8/1999)
- ISBN 978-1-538-10239-8.
- ^ Jim Hoagland, "Egypt, Libya Linked to Abduction," Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, Sept. 28, 1997; Page A01
- ^ "Mansour Al-Kikhia family calls for answers "
- ^ "Al Kikhya's lawyer does not rule out Libyan and US involvement in his disappearance," Archived 2006-02-24 at the Wayback Machine ArabicNews.com (10/28/1997)
External links
- Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, "Moral Isolation of the Egyptian Ruler," Ibn khaldun center for development studies.
- "Egyptian appeals court fines Ministry of the Interior over al-Kekhya's protection," ArabicNews.com (2/23/1999).