Mahfoud Boucebci

محفوظ بوسبسي (Known as "Boucebci")

Psychiatrist, Pediatric Mental Health Pioneer, Human Rights Defender

Born Nov 22, 1936

Miliana, Algeria

Passed Away Jun 15, 1993 Algiers, Algeria

Lifespan 56 years old

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"To heal a wounded society, one must first protect its most vulnerable children."

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Pioneering psychiatrist and humanitarian who founded pediatric psychiatry in Algeria, campaigned for abandoned children and mothers, and was murdered outside his hospital clinic in 1993.

Biographical Record

Head of psychiatry at the Beni Messous hospital in Algiers and professor of medicine, Dr. Mahfoud Boucebci broke societal taboos by addressing child abuse, mental disabilities, and the rights of single mothers and born-out-of-wedlock children in Algeria.

He served as Vice President of the Algerian League for Human Rights and the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. On June 15, 1993, he was brutally stabbed to death by religious extremists at the entrance of his clinic, a foundational martyr of modern Algerian medicine.

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Sidi M'hamed Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria

                         GPS: 36.7538, 3.0588                    

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