Houari Boumediene

Houari Boumedienne / Houari Bu Madyan (Arabic هواري بومدين, DMG Hawari Bū - Madyan, whose real name is Mohammed Boukharrouba; born August 23, 1927 in Guelma, † December 27, 1978 in Algiers ) was an Algerian politician and head of state from 1965 to in 1978.

Boumedienne was born in 1927 in Guelma and joined by a theology degree from Constantine and Cairo, the FLN. In this he won during the Algerian War as commander quickly influence. In 1960, he was Chief of Staff of the FLN in Morocco and Tunisia.

On June 19, 1965, he crashed with the support of the army in a bloody coup d'état Ahmed Ben Bella and united in his person the office of government and head of state. Politically, he represented an oriented on Islam and socialism strengthened the industrialization of the country with the help of oil revenues.

Its economic success led to a high reputation Boumedienne in the Arab countries. After a constitutional amendment, he was officially elected president in 1977, but he died a year later after 39 -day coma on Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, malignant lymphoma, against which he had previously been treated unsuccessfully in Moscow.

Rabah Bitat was briefly Interim President from December 27 1978 to 9 February 1979. Successor as President was then Bendjedid Chadli ( 1979-1992 ).

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