Reportage abdelaziz bouteflika biography
- Millions had taken to the streets to protest the fifth re-election bid of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a resurgence of hope after decades of.
- In April 2014, when Abdelaziz Bouteflika is ready to pile on yet a fourth term, the filmmaker settles into the offices of the major French-language daily El.
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1965 Algerian coup d'état
The 1965 Algerian coup d'état brought Colonel Houari Boumédiène to power as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Algeria. The bloodless coup d'état saw Algeria's first President, Ahmed Ben Bella, arrested and his closest supporters imprisoned by Boumédiène and his allies, principally in the Algerian Land Forces. The arrest of Ben Bella occurred on 19 June 1965.
Background
Following the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962), with the help of then Chief of Staff Houari Boumédiène and the National Liberation Army (ALN), Ahmed Ben Bella was elected as Prime Minister in September 1962, ousting former Prime Minister Benyoucef Benkhedda. Owing to his support of Ben Bella, Boumédiène was appointed Defense Minister by Ben Bella and remained in this position until 1976.
From 1962 to 1965, Ben Bella governed in an often erratic manner and centralized more and more government institutions by appointing himself the Secretary General of the Party, minister of the Interior, and the head of other bodies. Concerns of Ben Bella's demagogic beh
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Checks and Balances
(Contre-pouvoirs)
In China is Still Far, screened at the 3 Continents Festival in 2008, Malek Bensmaïl explored how knowledge is transmitted in Algeria, in the very place where the independence struggle broke out in 1954. Continuing the fascinating documentary work that he began almost twenty years ago and which reveals the contours of a pluralist Algeria and the country’s relationship with its history and political power, the filmmaker now focuses on the question of the freedom of information. In April 2014, when Abdelaziz Bouteflika is ready to pile on yet a fourth term, the filmmaker settles into the offices of the major French-language daily El Watan. Housed by La Maison de la Presse in Algiers since the bloody decade of the 1990s, the editorial team is waiting to move into its new premises, a symbol of their independence. Patiently and precisely, Bensmail records the calm or heated debates, filming faces close-up that talk of respect, intellectual curiosity, but also frustration. Can democracy be pried out of the hands of an authoritarian regime? Af
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Requiem for a Revolution
The 22nd day of February, 2019, was a day like no other.
Like millions of fellow Algerians, I still hold dearly its memory. I remember calling friends and family as the news seemed like wishful thinking. Millions had taken to the streets to protest the fifth re-election bid of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a resurgence of hope after decades of rule by a mysterious military junta and a civil war that turned aspirational dreams of freedom into a national trauma. For so long, Algeria had seemed consigned to slumber, haunted by the memories of the war’s atrocities, lest its demons rise again. It would not last – that sense of unity or the political movement it birthed – but that day, we were all able to dream.
For someone who was part of the Algerian diaspora, that day was characterized by an overwhelming wave of revolutionary sentiment – pride, but also regret at not being there to help shape the future of my country. As a young Algerian whose family fought French colonialism and participated in the counter-insurgency efforts in the 1990s, this unexpecte
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