Krim Belkacem

Krim Belkacem (September 14, 1922 - October 18, 1970) was an Algerian revolutionary fighter and politician. Image File history File links Krim belkacem File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Krim belkacem File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

He was born close to Draa el-Mizan in Kabylie, Algeria. Kabylie is a mountainous area in the north of Algeria. ...

Accused for the murder of forest warden, he was hunted and he joined the maquis under the pseudonym of Si Rabah with Moh Nachid, Mohand Talah, Messaoud Ben Arab. Two times sentenced to death by the French tribunals in 1947 and 1950, he became responsible of the P.P.A.-M.T.L.D. (paramilitary organization founded in februray 1947 chaired by Messali Hadj) for the whole Kabilya. He was the leader of 22 members of the resistance (maquisards) who composed his état-major and who were multiplying direct contacts with activists and population.

Belkacem who left Algeria after the battle of Alger, fromed an alliance with Ben Tobbal and Boussouf against Abane Ramdane. He was the first to be Minister of defense then Foreign Minister with the provisional Government of the Algerian republic (GPRA) in 1958, and the principal Algerian negotiator of the agreements of Évian in March 1962. Belkacem was in opposition to the creation of the Political Bureau of the FLN in July 1962 by Ahmed Ben Bella, Colonel Houari Boumedienne, and Muhammad Khidr. 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Évian Accords were signed on March 18, 1962 in Évian-les-Bains, France. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

After the June 19th 1965 coup d'Etat, he goes back to the opposition. Accused to have organized an assassination attempt against Boumedienne, he is sentenced to death in absentia. He was found assassinated probably under the order of the Algerian State in 1970 in hotel room in Frankfurt, Germany.   Frankfurt am Main? [ˈfraÅ‹kfÊŠrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany. ...

Belkacem was posthumously rehabilitated by being buried in the Carré des Martyrs on October 24th 1984.

References

In French :

• http://awg.faithweb.com/fr/history/personalite/belkacem.html
• http://www.ambalgott.com/html/insurrection_armee_wilay_I.htm