Said Boualam
Bachaga Said Boualam (born October 2, 1906 in Souk Ahras , French Algeria , † February 2, 1982 in Mas-Thibert , France ) was a French officer and politician of Algerian descent. During the Algerian war , he was politically committed to Algeria remaining in the French state association and led a loyalist militia.
Life
Said Boualam came from a well-known family of landowners from the Ouarsenis Mountains with a long tradition of military service in the service of France. Boualam himself was a career officer in the French army and was honored several times during the Second World War .
Starting in 1956, he built as a tribal leader of the approximately 15,000 people comprehensive Beni Boudouane a Harkimiliz on which the FLN - guerrilla fighting in their region. He was politically active as the leader of the pro-French Front Algérie française and was a member of the National Assembly from 1958 to 1962 and at times one of its vice-presidents.
Numerous streets in squares in France are named after Boualem. In 1978 he was honored as a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor.
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Evans: Algeria: France's undeclared War. Oxford, 2012, pp. 251f
- ↑ Giulia Fabbiano: Les harkis de Bachaga Boualam. in Abderrahmane Bouchène, Jean-Pierre Peyroulou, Ounassa Sari Tengour, Sylvie Thénault: Histoire de l'Algérie à la period Coloniale 1830 - 1962. Paris 2014, pp. 634–647
- ^ Martin Evans: Algeria: France's undeclared War. Oxford, 2012, p. 285
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| SURNAME | Boualam, Said |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boualam, Bachaga Said (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French officer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Souk Ahras , French Algeria |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 1982 |
| Place of death | Mas-Thibert , France |