Ben Bella and Boumediene banned the reburial of fodil Ourtilane in Algeria
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The Mujahideen and former Minister of Religious Affairs and Waqf, Abdelhafid Amokrane revealed that former Presidents Ahmed Ben Bella and Houari Boumedienne had banned, when they were in power, the repatriation of the deceased scholar and martyr Fodil Ourtilane for his reburial in his home town in the province of Setif.
- In his speech on the sidelines of the conference on the life and works of the scientists fodil Ourtilane, Amokrane said that those who were opposed to the repatriation of his body and his burial in Algeria regarded him as a fanatic religious "khouandji" (referring to Muslim brothers), as qualified by another mujahid who was among the first to wanted to repatriate the body of the deceased from Turkey to Algeria in 1987, twenty-eight years after his burial in Turkey where he died March 12, 1959. Former President Chadli Bendjedid had authorized the deceased's family of the scholar to repatriate his body to be buried in his native village in the town of Ath Ourtilane, province of Setif. Setif which commemorates this week the anniversary of the death of this great thinker who sacrificed his life for knowledge, science and the Algerian cause.
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Ennahar / Rabah S.
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