1965 Algerian coup d'état
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The 1965 Algerian coup d'état, also called the Revolutionary Correction, brought Colonel Houari Boumédiène to power as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Algeria. The bloodless coup d'état saw A
Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of the Algerian Republic.
Houari Boumédiène, at the time Algerian Minister of Defence.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as the seventh president of Algeria from 1999 until his resignation in 2019, following mass protests.
1965 Algerian coup d'état
…militias while simultaneously reducing the role of the military. Ben Bella's plans for the removal of minister for foreign affairs and Boumédiène ally, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who later became President of Algeria in 1999. Bouteflika was scheduled to be removed on the 22nd, just three days after the coup took place. Ben…
Bouteflika in 2012
Market street in Oujda, around 1920.
Oujda Group in 1958
Bouteflika (fourth from left) in 1965