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Krim Belkacem
Krim Belkacem (Arabic : كريم بلقاصم) (September 14 , 1922 - October 18 , 1970 ) was an Algerian revolutionary fighter and politician.
He was born close to Draa el-Mizan in Kabylie , Algeria .
Accused of the murder of a forest warden, he was hunted and he joined the maquis under the nom de guerre of Si Rabah with Moh Nachid , Mohand Talah , Messaoud Ben Arab .
Twice sentenced to death by French tribunals in 1947 and 1950, he became the Kabylie responsible of the PPA -MTLD paramilitary organization founded in February 1947 by Messali Hadj , the Organisation Spéciale , at the head of 22 members of the resistance (maquisards
Belkacem, who left Algeria after the Battle of Algiers , formed an alliance with Lakhdar Ben Tobbal and Abdelhafid Boussouf against Abane Ramdane . He was the first to be Minister of Defense, then Foreign Minister, in the provisional Government of the Algerian republic (GPRA ) in 1958, and later 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 .
After the June 19, 1965 takeover by the Political Bureau, he went back to the opposition , favouring more federalist views than Boumedienne's centralist policies. Accused of having organized an assassination attempt against Boumedienne, he was sentenced to death in absentia Frankfurt , West Germany .
Belkacem was posthumously rehabilitated by the Algerian state by being buried in the Carré des Martyrs October 24 , 1984 .
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