Lakhdar Ben Tobbal

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Lakhdar Ben Tobbal

Lakhdar Ben Tobbal (* 1923 in Mila , French Algeria ; † August 21, 2010 in Algiers , Algeria ) was a guerrilla fighter, officer and politician of the Front de Liberation Nationale during the Algerian War .

Life

Ben Tobbal came from a family of Turkish descent from Algeria.

Lakhdar Ben Tobbal was politically involved in the Parti du peuple algérien (PPA), which advocated the country's independence . From 1950 he was part of the anti-colonial underground. He belonged to the organization Spéciale , which acted as the armed arm of the PPA. At the beginning of the war of independence against France he was one of the leadership cadres of the FLN and held the military rank of colonel . He was one of the planners of the Philippeville massacre on July 20, in which the FLN consciously incited Algerian civilians to violence against European civilians in order to make political capital out of it.

He belonged to the power bloc of Trois B together with Krim Belkassem and Abdelhafid Boussouf who from 1957 gained a dominant position of power within the FLN against the civilian political leadership. In 1957 he took part in the Soummam programmatic conference as one of six delegates . In the summer of 1957 he served as the FLN envoy in Cairo . Until 1961 he served as Minister of the Interior in the provisional government-in-exile of the FLN.

Ben Tobbal was part of the negotiating delegation that concluded the Évian treaties with France and thus achieved Algeria's independence. Within the FLN, he spoke out against political power participation by French Algerians and Sephardic Jews in the post-war order, because this could not be conveyed to the Algerian people. In the power struggle between the Provisional Government and the leadership of the exile military around Houari Boumedienne , he was on the losing side with the government and was arrested after Boumedienne's victory. He then largely withdrew from political activities.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gilbert Meynier: Histoire intérieure du FLN 1954 - 1962. Paris, 2004, p. 140
  2. ^ Martin Evans: Algeria: France's undeclared War. Oxford, 2012, p. 140
  3. ^ Martin Evans: Algeria: France's undeclared War. Oxford, 2012, p. 177, p. 229f
  4. ^ Martin Evans: Algeria: France's undeclared War. Oxford, 2012, pp. 333-335
personal data
SURNAME Ben Tobbal, Lakhdar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Mila , French Algeria
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2010
Place of death Algiers , Algeria