Abdelkader Guerroudj
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Abdelkader Guerroudj 🇩🇿

عبد القادر قروج (Known as "Djillali")
Anti-Colonial Militant, Combattants de la Libération Leader, Death Row Survivor
Born Jul 26, 1928 🇩🇿 Tlemcen, Algeria
Passed Away Nov 07, 2020 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 92 years old
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Archival Overview

Historic communist militant and leader of the Combattants de la Libération who integrated communist combatants into the ALN, condemned to death by French tribunals in 1957.

Biographical Record

A schoolteacher from Tlemcen, Abdelkader Guerroudj, known as 'Djillali', was a senior leader of the Algerian Communist Party (PCA). In 1956, he played a central role in negotiating the historic agreement with the FLN integrating communist partisan units into the National Liberation Army.

Arrested in 1957, both he and his wife Jacqueline were condemned to death by a French military tribunal. Saved from the guillotine by an international campaign of intellectuals led by Jean-Paul Sartre and François Mauriac, he survived to see independent Algeria, remaining a steadfast voice for social justice.

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Final Resting Place

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El Alia Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7212, 3.1678
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