Former president Chadli Benjedid ordered an investigation over the corps of Amirouche and Si- Lhouass: war veteran reveals

Tibaoui Ali, nicknamed Mehiri, one of the Algerian Liberation Army officers who joined the liberation movement in 1955, wouldn’t imagine that a day would come where as soon as soon he reveals the secret of the death of the Algerian martyrs Amirouche and Si- Lhouass, would put him in trouble with the Algerian authorities after two decades.

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• A series of investigations carried out with him by the national gendarmerie pushed him to reveal to his family that his day has come and his life was at stake. He has never imagined that talking about the corps of the two heroes was part of the taboos.
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• The events hack back to the year 1966 when two men got into his office ( he was then Algerian veterans’ coordinator of the province of Bousaada, and introduce themselves as journalists to ask him whether he could show them the death’s place of the two colonels nearby the mount “Thamer” 70Kms far from the region of Bousaada.
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• 15 years after, in the year 1981 when the former president Chadli Bendjedid, took power a summit on the writing of the Algerian revolution’s history was held” We‘ve been asked to talk about the inns and outs of the Algerian revolution” , then a regional forum on the Algerian revolution took place.
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• In one of these forums that brought together the First, Third and Sixth “willaya”, Province, in the region of Bousaada, one of the participants asked us to reveal the location of the two colonels’ tombs. Amirouche’s personal secretary intervened and revealed to the participants that he was assigned the task to find the martyr’s corps.
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• After a series of investigations he got in touch with a French officer who informed him that should look for it a museum in the region of Marseille, southern France, and he would maybe find his head alongside Bouziane’ s one. But the only thing he found was Amirouche’s weapon.
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• “Mehiri” went on saying in his testimony: “ I knew after that Amirouche’s son and Si- Lhouass’ sons have informed the president Benjedid about the case who, I his turn decided to set up three committees to investigate on the matter and assigned the late Mouh Ali to lead them”.
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• Ali Tibaoui has indicated that during the Algerian war veterans’ forum held in 1983, the president Chadli Benjedid has informed us that the two colonels’ corps have been retrieved and convened the participants to take part to the burial ceremony in “Al Alia “cemetery here in Algiers.
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• “ Upon our return to the conference’s room a conflict broke out between the participants among them those who asserted that the corps were discovered in “Barberouss” prison.
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