Houari Boumediene
Houari Boumdine, also transcribed Boumediene, Boumedienne etc., served as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Algeria fromJune 1965 untilDecember 1976 and thereafter as the second President of Algeria until his death onDecember 1978.
Boumdine was born Mohammed Ben Brahim Boukharouba near Hliopolis in Algerias Guelma Province and was educated at the Islamic Institute in Constantine. He joined the National Liberation Front in the Algerian War of Independence in 1955, adopting Houari Boumdine as his nomdeguerre . He reached the rank of Colonel, then the highest rank in the FLN forces, and from 1960 he was chief of staff of the ALN, the FLNs military wing. But at this point of the war, the ALN had been defeated and badly hurt by the French operations and Boumdine accepted a difficult command.
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