What lessons can Algeria's anti-colonial revolutionaries teach those in power today? Opinion | animsche
“Throw the revolution into the street, and the people will embrace it,” Algeria’s most revered, revolutionary figures, Larbi Ben M’Hidi, once famously said.
An author, playwright and military officer, Ben M'Hidi was one of the founding members of the National Liberation Front, which has maintained power since independence in 1962. On March 1954 in Algiers, Ben M’Hidi along with 21 former OS members held an assembly to create the Revolutionary Committee of Unity and Action following which the FLN and its armed wing, the National Liberation Army was formed a few months later.
In 1956, following the Soummam Congress where the state of Algeria as a social and democratic republic is founded, Ben M'Hidi took up secondary leadership within the FLN. Pictured smiling defiantly, with his head held high, his military intelligence and lessons in military ethics and international laws impressed his captors. Despite the interrogation he faced for two weeks, he never revealed any information and continuously insisted that Algeria would be victorious and her people liberated - a resolve which provoked Bigeard’s respect.
An interview in December 2000, by an unrepentant Aussaresse on the degree of torture rife under his command, revealed how Ben M’Hidi was killed with the French government’s approval., Donal Hassett, a Colonial Historian at the University of College Cork, explained how “it would be a grave error to reduce Ben M’Hidi to the status of martyr or victim. He was a key strategic thinker within the FLN from its earliest days and played a central role in shaping its political and military tactics.
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