Hocine Aït Ahmed
Hocine Aït Ahmed حسين آيت أحمد | |
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| Born | 20 August 1926 Ain El Hammam, Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria |
| Died | 23 December 2015 (aged 89) |
| Known for | Algerian war, Socialist Forces Front |
| Movement | FLN, CRUA, OS, FFS |
| Spouse |
Djamila Aït Ahmed née Toudert
(before 2015) |
| Children | Bouchra Aït Ahmed Jughurta Aït Ahmed. Salah Eddine Ait Ahmed. |
Hocine Aït Ahmed (Arabic: حسين آيت أحمد; 20 August 1926 – 23 December 2015) was an Algerian politician.[1] He was founder and leader until 2009 of the historical political opposition in Algeria. The Hocine Aït Ahmed Stadium, one of the largest stadiums by capacity in Algeria, is named after Hocine Aït Ahmed.
Life
Aït Ahmed was born in Aït Yahia in 1926.
He was one of the main leaders of the National Liberation Front (FLN) in the Algerian War, and was arrested along with Ahmed Ben Bella, Mohamed Boudiaf, Mostefa Lacheraf, and Mohamed Khider after France hijacked a Moroccan aeroplane destined for Tunisia with that had FLN leaders onboard, directing it to occupied Algiers.
After the Algerian War, Aït Ahmed resigned from the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA) and all the organs of the new power during the crisis of the summer of 1962. In September 1963, he founded the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), which sought political pluralism in political life within the single-party system.
He was arrested and sentenced to death in 1964, before escaping from the El Harrach prison on 1st May 1966.
Exiled in Switzerland, he graduated with a doctorate in law.
Following the riots of October 1988, President Chadli Bendjedid proposed a new constitution calling for political pluralism in Algeria, and as part of this, Aït Ahmed was invited to return to the country.
He returned in December 1989 as the head of the FFS, but left again after the assassination of President Mohamed Boudiaf, in June 1992. In the years following the end of the Algerian Civil War, he repeatedly visited Algeria, including to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the start of the Algerian War of Independence.
Aït Ahmed died at the age of 89 in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 23rd December 2015.[2]
References
- ^ "Hocine AIT AHMED :" Il y a toujours quelque chose à faire pour un peuple, un parti ou des hommes qui ont choisi la construction, la formation et la proposition politiques. " - Front des Forces Socialistes - Site Officiel". Archived from the original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ^ "Longtime Algerian opposition figure Ait-Ahmed dies: party", Agence France-Presse, 23 December 2015.
External links
- Hocine Aït Ahmed obituary
Media related to Hocine Aït Ahmed at Wikimedia Commons