Colonel Amirouche

Amirouche Aїt Hamouda (commonly called Colonel Amirouche) was born on 31 October 1926 in Tassaft Ouguemoun in the Djurdjura mountains in Kabylia, Algeria. Amirouche was a leader in the Algerian War, organizing the maquis of the Wilaya Kabylia.
He is considered a revolutionary fighter and national hero in Algeria.

Amirouche was a Kabyle, a Berber people whose traditional homeland is Kabylia in northeastern Algeria.

He was killed by French troops on March 29, 1959. This event was much publicized, as Amirouche was considered a great threat to the French in Algeria. [1]

Secularist politician Nordine Ait Hamouda is Amirouche's son.

See also

• French rule in Algeria
• History of Algeria
• Provinces of Algeria

External links

• War in Algeria: the French experience

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Name	Amirouche, Colonel
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Date of birth	1926
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Date of death	1959
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