Soummam conference
Soummam conference was the founding act of the modern Algerian State, and a crucial element of success of the Algerian war for independence. It took place on 20 August 1956, in Ighbane and Ifri at Ouzellaguen in the Kabylie. It was mainly organized by Abane Ramdane.
The Conference proclaimed the separation of the Church and the independent Algerian state.[1] The National Council of the Algerian Revolution, designed after the conference was composed of 34 members: 17 titular, and 17 alternates.
Titular members
Many of them were absent or dead, but were anyway designed:
- Mostefa Ben Boulaïd
- Youssef Zighout
- Belkacem Krim
- Amar Ouamrane
- Med Larbi Ben M’hidi
- Rabah Bitat
- Mohamed Boudiaf
- Ramdane Abane
- Ahmed Ben Bella
- Mohamed Khider
- Hocine Aït Ahmed
- Med Lamine Debaghine
- Idir Aïssat
- Ferhat Abbas
- M’hamed Yazid
- Benyoucef Ben Khedda
- Taoufik El Madani
Alternate members
- Ben Boulaïd’s Assistant
- Lakhdar Ben Tobbal
- Saïd Mohammedi
- Slimane Déhilès
- Abdelhafid Boussouf
- Ali Mellah
- Saâd Dahlab
- Salah Louanchi
- Mohammed Ben Yahia
- Abdelhamid Mehri
- Tayeb Thaâlibi
- Mohammed Lebdjaoui
- Ahmed Francis
- Aïssa Ben Atallah
- UGTA
- Brahim Mezhoudi
- Abdel-Malek Temmam
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References
- ^ B. Stora, ‘Algérie: Les retours de la mémoire de la guerre d’independence’ in Modern and Contemporary France, 10:4, p. 466.