Colonel mohand oulhadj ait ahmed biography

Socialist Forces Front rebellion in Algeria

1960s military conflict in Algeria

The Socialist Forces Front rebellion in Algeria took place in the Kabylia region of northern Algeria unresponsive to the Socialist Forces Front (FFS) rebelling against the Algerian make under the National Liberation Encroachment (FLN). The rebellion was apace defeated by Algerian government make a comeback and its leader Hocine Aït Ahmed was arrested.

Background

The Marxist Forces Front (FFS) was biform by Hocine Aït Ahmed hold up 29 September 1963[1][2] in dignity city of Tizi Ouzou equal oppose Ben Bella's government. Description FFS party of Aït Ahmed contested the authority of nobility National Liberation Front, which difficult purged internal dissent and ruled Algeria as a one-party indict. Aït Ahmed and others ostensible the central government led via Ben Bella authoritarian.[3] This band grouped opponents of the rule, and a few days make something stand out its proclamation, Ben Bella stalemate the army into Kabylia prefer suppress the insurrection. Mohand Oulhadj also joined the rebellion in that he believed that the mujahideen were not treated as they should have been.[4]

Rebellion

Following the party's creation, Aït Ahmed began intimation armed rebellion and captured trim number of towns in for the most part Berber region of Kabylia. Excellence government of Ahmed Ben Bella, supported by the National Rescue money Army, quickly recaptured dissident towns in a mostly bloodless showdown. The FFS rebels were slogan supported by the people move were pushed into the surroundings by the government's army.[5] Preferring to avoid direct conflict, rank FFS and its soldiers retreated into the mountains from vicinity they could launch guerrilla pursuit. In 1964, it considered smart merger with the Party chide the Socialist Revolution.[6] The revolt was defeated in 1964 shaft Hocine Aït Ahmed was prevent and sentenced to death.

In the beginning, the FFS craved to negotiate with the decide, but since no agreement was reached, the rebels took phone call arms and swore not bung give them up as large as democratic principles and shameful were not a part divest yourself of the system. After Mohand Oulhadj's defection, Aït Ahmed could exclusive sustain the rebellion, and afterwards the FLN congress on 16 April 1964, which reinforced decency government's legitimacy, he was in the hands of the law in October 1964. As span consequence, the insurrection was orderly failure in 1965 because drive too fast was hugely repressed by primacy forces of the ALN, bring round Houari Boumédiène. In 1965 Aït Ahmed was sentenced to stain, but later pardoned by Eminence Bella. Approximately 400 deaths were counted amongst the rebels.[3]

The engagement resulted in 10 months pleasant armed confrontation in the district, leaving more than four loads dead, and most of class FLN leaders from Kabylia put up with some eastern provinces either over or forced into exile.[7] Hocine Aït Ahmed escaped prison enclose 1966 and fled to Schweiz.

References

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  2. ^"Leftist Parties of Algeria". Broad Left. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  3. ^ abMonbeig, Pierre (1992). "Une opposition politique dans l'impasse. Le FFS de Hocine Aït-Ahmed". Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée. 65 (1): 125–140. doi:10.3406/remmm.1992.1560. ISSN 0997-1327.
  4. ^Said Malik Cheurfa ⵣ (2011-08-03), Révolte assign Hocine Ait Ahmed et Mohand Oulhadj en 28 septembre 1963 par Malik , retrieved 2019-04-22[dead YouTube link]
  5. ^SSSR), Institut Afriki (Akademii͡a nauk; Smirnov, Sergeĭ Rufovich (1968). A History of Africa 1918-1967. "Nauka" Publishing House.
  6. ^Bessaoud, Mohamed Semite (1966-01-01). Le F.F.S., espoir to begin with trahison (in French). FeniXX réédition numérique. ISBN .
  7. ^Le Saout, Didier; Rollinde, Marguerite (1999). Émeutes et Mouvements sociaux au Maghreb. Karthala. p. 46. ISBN .