“Ahmed Ben Bella: 'I spent 24-and-half years in prison'”
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Ahmad ibn Billah
Ahmed Ben Bella was an Algerian politician, soldier and revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 and then the first president of Algeria from 15 September 1963 until his overthrow on 19 June 1965.
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sports · President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965 · politician · association football player · also Ahmad ibn Billah, Ahmed Ben Bella, Muhammad Ahmad ibn Billah, Billah
Born 25 December 1916 · Died 11 April 2012 · Q179908
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2020· 1 entry
2012· 2 entries
Died 2012-04-11.
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“Islam as an idea has exploded on the world scene. Islam will soon be the world’s biggest religion.”
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2003· 1 entry
Ben Bella was elected president of the International Campaign Against Aggression on Iraq at its Cairo Conference
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1991· 1 entry
Led the MDA in the first round of the country's abortive parliamentary elections
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1978· 1 entry
Restrictions on him were eased in July 1979, and he was freed on 17 January 1980
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1971· 1 entry
Married Zohra Sellami, an Algerian journalist; their meeting was arranged by Ben Bella's mother
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1965· 1 entry
Ben Bella was detained for eight months in prison
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1963· 5 entries
The FFS called for an armed revolt against the regime
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Career landmark: President of Algeria (1963–1965).
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria (1963–1963).
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Dismayed by the dictatorial tendencies on display in Ben Bella's proposed constitution, which enshrined a one-party state and rejected political pluralism
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And a failed rebellion by the Socialist Forces Front against his regime in 1963–1964
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1962· 1 entry
Ben Bella's Oujda Group seized power from Benyoucef Benkhedda's provisional government, and Ben Bella became prime minister of Algeria with Ferhat Abbas as acting president
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1956· 2 entries
Refused to receive a package delivered by taxi to his hotel in Cairo
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Ben Bella and his associates established a system of camps in both countries for training men and sending them into Algeria
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1954· 1 entry
Ben Bella was based in Cairo, where he had become one of the nine members of the Revolutionary Committee of Unity and Action that headed the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), founded in November that year during a sec
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1952· 1 entry
By cutting through his prison window bars with a knife that had been smuggled into jail in a loaf of bread, making his way to Tunisia and then to Egypt, reaching Cairo by 1952 where he was granted sanctuary by the presid
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1950· 1 entry
And sentenced to eight years' imprisonment in Blida jail
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1947· 1 entry
This was followed by the fixing of the Algerian Assembly elections in 1948 by French officials, agreed to and justified by the Socialist Governor-General Marcel-Edmond Naegelen, Ben Bella became convinced that achieving
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1945· 1 entry
Ben Bella returned to Algeria, becoming politically active in the opposition movement against the French regime
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1940· 1 entry
Believing that the French Army offered the best opportunity for non-discriminatory treatment of Algerians
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1916· 2 entries
Born 1916-12-25.
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To Moroccan parents in the commune of Maghnia
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