Former Algerian President Bouteflika was deposed for protest at the age of 84-News

State television announced on Friday that former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika fought for independence from France in the 1950s and 1960s, and protested at democracy in 2019 after 20 years in power. Was expelled from China at the age of 84.

The ENTV report cited a statement from the office of current President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and did not provide information on the cause of death or the arrangements for the funeral.

Bouteflika suffered a stroke in 2013, which severely weakened his body. Algerian public concerns about his health have contributed to public dissatisfaction with his 20-year corrupt and tainted rule. The mass public protests of the Chirac movement led him to leave.

Bouteflika is a shrewd political chameleon who has been known as a cunning survivor since his independence from colonial ruler France in the 1950s and 1960s.

As Algeria’s long-serving foreign minister, he stood with Henry Kissinger and successfully negotiated with the terrorist known as Jackal Carlos to release the oil minister who was taken hostage when he attacked OPEC headquarters in 1975. And to help Algerian citizens reconcile each other after a decade of conflict. Civil war between radical Muslim radicals and Algerian security forces.

“I am an unruly politician. I am a revolutionary,” Bouteflika told the Associated Press on the eve of his first presidential election in 1999, after a previous campaign was tainted by accusations of fraud, which led to him Of six competitors withdrew from voting.

After taking office, Bouteflika promised to “turn over a dark page in our history and work for a new era.”

Bouteflika was born to Algerian parents in the Moroccan border town of Oujda on March 2, 1937. He is one of Algeria’s most enduring politicians.

In 1956, Bouteflika joined the National Liberation Army and was formed to fight Algeria’s bloody war of independence. He commanded the southern front of Mali and sneaked into France secretly.

After the war, Bouteflika became Minister of Foreign Affairs at only 25 years old, when Algeria was a model of dogmatic socialism bound by the Soviet Union. Its capital, Algiers, is nicknamed “Moscow on the Mediterranean”.

He held this position for 16 years, helping to increase Algeria’s influence and defining the country as a leader of the Third World and the Non-Aligned Movement. He is active in the United Nations and presided over the United Nations General Assembly in 1974.

In 1978, it disappeared from people’s sight for nearly 20 years and spent more than six years in exile to escape corruption charges that were later dropped.

During that time, the Algerian army held power. The National Liberation Army has transformed into a single party until the introduction of a multi-party system in 1989.

However, as the FIS party quickly gained support, the army cancelled Algeria’s first multi-party legislative elections in 1992 to prevent Muslim fundamentalists from achieving a possible victory. A rebellion broke out and an estimated 200,000 people died in the following years.

Bouteflika took office in 1999. This is Algeria’s first civilian leader in 30 years. He managed to bring stability to a country almost paralyzed by violence, and in 2005 launched a bold plan to reconcile the divided country by persuading Muslim radicals to lay down their arms.

Bouteflika and the armed forces quelled the Algerian rebellion, but then watched it evolve into a Sahara-wide movement related to smuggling and kidnapping and al-Qaeda.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, Bouteflika stood together with the United States to fight terrorism, especially in the areas of intelligence sharing and military cooperation. It marked the transformation of the radical anti-American and Soviet-armed Algeria in the past few years when the Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver and others took refuge there.

Bouteflika’s powerful political machine amended the constitution and removed the president’s two-term term limit. He was then re-elected in 2009 and 2013, on allegations of fraud and lack of strong challengers.

His provocative past disappeared with age and illness affecting once-charming characters. Corruption scandals in infrastructure and hydrocarbon projects have plagued him for years and tarnished many of his closest colleagues. His brothers, two former prime ministers and other senior officials are now in prison for corruption.

Bouteflika refused to accept the call for regional change embodied in the 2011 Arab Spring Revolution, which overthrew his three dictators in the east. Bouteflika quelled the unrest through salary increases and subsidies, vigilant security forces, and a lack of unity among the opposition in the country.

Although Algeria has huge oil and gas wealth, he has failed to restore citizens’ trust or create an economy that can provide the jobs needed by Algeria’s growing youth population.

Bouteflika was increasingly absent during the third and fourth terms of the presidency after the stroke. The extent to which Bouteflika is controlled by the military is unclear. He once told the Associated Press that he rejected the presidency in 1994 because he could not accept the conditions set by the military.

Protests broke out after Chirac of Algeria announced his plan to run for the fifth term in 2019. The chief of the army at the time decided Bouteflika’s fate by supporting the demonstrators. Bouteflika had no choice but to step down.

Despite the new elections and some gestures towards the protesters, the Algerian leadership remains opaque and has recently suppressed dissent, especially among Berbers.

There are so many secrets surrounding Algerian leaders that it is not clear whether Bouteflika was married or has any survivors.