Mohamed Khemisti

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Mohamed Khemisti
Mohamed Khemisti with daughter

Mohamed Khemisti ( Arabic محمد خميستي; * August 11, 1930 in Maghnia ; † May 6, 1963 ) was an Algerian politician of the National Liberation Front FLN (Front de Liberation Nationale) , who in 1962 became Algeria's first foreign minister after Algeria's independence from France .

Life

Khemisti, son of a fellah , began after visiting the Lycée Pasteur in Oran a study of medicine at the University of Montpellier . He was active as general secretary of the General Association of Muslim Algerian Students UGÉMA (Union générale des étudiants musulmans algériens) in the revolution of November 1, 1954 and in the general strike of May 19, 1956 for the national liberation front FLN (Front de Liberation Nationale) . On November 12, 1957, he was arrested in Montpellier and transferred to Serkadji prison.

After Algeria gained independence from France on July 5, 1962, Khemisti was temporarily secretary to the President of the Provisional Executive , Abdur Rahman Farès . In September 1962 he took over the post of Foreign Minister (Ministre des Affaires étrangères) in the government of Prime Minister Ahmed Ben Bella . On April 11, 1963, he was shot deadly in an assassination attempt in front of the National People's Assembly and died three weeks later on May 6, 1963 without having regained consciousness. His successor as Foreign Minister was the previous Minister for Youth, Sports and Tourism, Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika .

After his widow Fatima Khemisti, a feminist and member of the National People's Assembly, the Khemisti Act, which she initiated in 1963, was named, which set the minimum age for marriage for women at 16 and for men at 18 years.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karen M. Paget: Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism , p. 203, Yale University Press, 2015, ISBN 0-3002-0508-2 .
  2. ^ Algeria: Foreign Ministers
  3. ↑ Phillip C. Naylor: Historical Dictionary of Algeria , p. 545, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, ISBN 0-8108-7919-0 .
  4. ↑ Martin Stone: The Agony of Algeria , p. 46, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1-8506-5177-9 .
  5. ^ Benjamin Stora: Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History , p. 132, Cornell University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8014-8916-4 .
  6. ^ Alistair Horne: A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 , pp. CCXXIX, Pan Macmillan, 2012, ISBN 1-4472-3343-3 .
  7. ↑ James McDougall: A History of Algeria , pp. 245, 379, Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 1-1081-6574-5 .
  8. ↑ Mohamed Bka: Algérie, souffrances et espoir , pp. 113, 118, Société des Ecrivains, 2008, ISBN 2-7480-3997-1 .
  9. ↑ Abdelkader Cheref: Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature , p. 162, IB Tauris, 2010, ISBN 0-8577-1827-4 .
  10. ↑ Guy Arnold: The A to Z of Civil Wars in Africa , p. 61, Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 0-8108-7048-7 .
  11. Jump up ↑ Phillip C. Naylor: Historical Dictionary of Algeria Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, ISBN 0-8108-7919-0 , p. 524.
personal data
SURNAME Khemisti, Mohamed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Maghnia
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1963