Ahmed Agouliz
| Ahmed Agouliz | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Sheikh El-Arab |
| Born | Ahmed Agouliz 1927 |
| 💀Died | August 7, 1964 Casablanca,MoroccoAugust 7, 1964 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Moroccan |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Ahmed (Hammad) bin Mohammed bin Ibrahim Bouchlaken, known as “Sheikh of the Arabs” or “Hajj” and also known as Ahmed Akoulis (1927 - August 7, 1964 AD), was one of the Moroccan resistance fighters during the French protectorate, and one of the opponents and rebels against the authority of King Hassan II after independence.
Biography[edit]
On March 14, 1964, after four months of trial, he was sentenced to death in absentia, along with Mehdi Ben Barka and other accused, for conspiracy and attempted assassination against King Hassan II..[1]. According to Moumen Diouri, also sentenced to death during the trial, this "plot" was invented from nothing by the entourage of Hassan II in order to get rid of their most active opponents[2]. To many people he was known as the Emir of Guerrilla warfare and a Moroccan hero[3]
Movement[edit]
Harakat shaykh al-'Arab. (Ahmed Agouliz) was a resistance fighter with a number of supporters, mained at hiding at independence for fear of being targeted by the new Moroccan forces who were hunting the ALN[4]. He believed in an Republic of Morocco.
Death[edit]
The leader of the underground resistance movement, under sentence of death for his part in a plot to overthrow the Moroccan monarchy, was killed in a gun battle with the police in the southern suburbs of Casablanca this morning. He was Ahmed Agouliz, alias Sheik al Arab. He was sentenced to death in absentia by the Rabat regional court last March 14 when convicted of threatening state security by plotting to assassinate King Hassan II in his bed in July, 1963. The Sheik was one of 11 men given the death penalty in the July plot trial, in which several leaders of the National Union of Popular Forces, the socialist opposition party, were implicated[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ Fqih Basri, Abdelmoumen Diouri et Omar Benjelloun sont condamnés à mort. Quant à Abderrahman el-Youssoufi, il bénéficie d'une peine de prison avec sursis dans cette affaire.
- ↑ ahmed, sheikh. rabat-maroc.net, consulté le 11/12/2012 "Dates-clés de l'histoire contemporaine du Maroc de 1961 à 1965, de l'avènement de Hassan II à la disparition de Ben Barka" Check
|url=value (help). rabat-marc.net. - ↑ agouliz, ahmed (19 January 2012). "emir guerillas". zamane. La redaction.
- ↑ ahmed, agouliz (2 June 2016). Historical Dictionary of Morocco. middle: Aomar Boum, Thomas K. Park. p. 304. ISBN 9781442262973. Search this book on
- ↑ Agouliz, Ahmed (8 August 1964). "Rebel leader Ahmed". The New York Times.
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