1. Ahmed Zabana was an Algerian fighter who participated in the outbreak of the Algerian War.
12 Facts About Ahmed Zabana
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Ahmed Zabana was executed by guillotine by French regime colonizers on 19 June 1956, in Algiers.
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Ahmed Zabana joined the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties in 1950.
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Ahmed Zabana later became a member of the military wing of a pro-independence secret society, and participated in a mail operation in Oran in 1950.
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Ahmed Zabana was later arrested and spent three years in prison and an additional three years in exile.
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Ahmed Zabana's tasks were to structure revolutionary forces and train them, and to visit strategic locations to choose places that could be made centers of revolution.
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Ahmed Zabana succeeded in forming revolutionary cadres in Zahana, Oran, Ain Temouchent, Hammam Bou Hadjar, Hassi El Ghella, and Chaabet El Ham.
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On 1 November 1954, Ahmed Zabana led a successful operation in Lamarda.
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Ahmed Zabana was captured in the Battle of Gar Bouklida on 11 November 1954, in which he was wounded.
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Ahmed Zabana was taken to a hospital and then to prison.
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On 21 April 1955, Ahmed Zabana was brought to the military court in Oran and sentenced to death.
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Ahmed Zabana is sometimes described as the first martyr to be the guillotined in the war.