Lamine Khene

Lamine Abderrahman Khene (6 March 1931^[1] – 14 December 2020),^[2] was an Algerian nationalist politician^[3] and officer.

Life

At age 16, he joined the Parti du peuple algérien (PPA) and its successor organization MTLD. Later, he joined the Front de libération nationale (FLN), to become an officer in its military wing, the Armée de libération nationale (ALN) during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–61), in which he fought as a guerrilla soldier from 1955. A medical student, in 1956, he was one of the co-founders of the Union générale des étudiants musulmans algériens (UGEMA), the FLN's student organization which later became the national student organization of Algeria.^[4]

He served as a secretary of state in the first lineup of the provisional exile government of the FLN, the Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Algérienne (GPRA) between 1958 and 1960.

^ Profile of Lamine Khene
^ "Décès de Lamine Khène, ancien ministre et membre du GPRA". 14 December 2020.
^ Relations, Council on Foreign; Research, State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Comparative Political; Analysis, State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Social (1967). Political handbook of the world. Published for the Center for Comparative Political Research of the State University of New York at Binghamton and for the Council on Foreign Relations by McGraw-Hill Book Co. p. 4. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
^ "Décès de Lamine Khène, ancien secrétaire d'Etat auprès du GPRA". Algeria Press Service (in French). 2020-12-14. Archived from the original on 2022-07-10.

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