M'hammed Yazid
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M'hammed Yazid 🇩🇿

محمد يزيد (Known as "M'hammed Yazid")
Minister of Information of the GPRA, Diplomatic Architect of Bandung, Statesman
Born 1923 🇩🇿 Blida, Algeria
Passed Away May 18, 2003 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 80 years old
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"We carried the voice of fighting Algeria to the four corners of the earth until the world stood with us."

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Charismatic Minister of Information of the GPRA whose brilliant diplomacy at the 1955 Bandung Conference and the United Nations internationalized the Algerian Cause.

Biographical Record

M'hammed Yazid was born in Blida and emerged as a youthful prodigy of the Algerian People's Party (PPA). Endowed with extraordinary oratorical eloquence, multilingual fluency, and diplomatic charm, he and Hocine Aït Ahmed represented the FLN at the historic Bandung Conference in Indonesia in 1955, putting Algeria on the global anti-colonial agenda.

As Minister of Information in the GPRA (1958–1962), Yazid directed the international broadcasts of 'Voice of Fighting Algeria' and orchestrated annual United Nations General Assembly votes that delegitimized French colonial sovereignty over Algeria.

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Final Resting Place

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El Alia Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7267, 3.1611
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