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Bouamama
Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah ( ar, الشيخ بوعمامة) led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908. Cheikh Bouamama was a leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh. The resistance that he led in the southwest of Algeria from 1881 to 1908.. The Algerian filmmaker Benamar Bakhti made the 1983 film ''L'Épopée de Cheikh Bouamama'' ("The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama"). See also * Invasion of Algiers in 1830 * Abdelkader al-Jazairi * Sherif Boubaghla * Mokrani Revolt * Algerian War * Massacre of Saïda (1881) Around 190 hundred immigrants of Spanish origin, most of them day labourers working in the ''esparto'' harvest, were killed on 11 June 1881 in French Algeria (in the countryside around Saïda) by members of the insurgent movement led by Bou-Amama ... Notes References * * * * 1833 births 1908 deaths Algerian rebels Algerian independence activists {{Algeria-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massacre Of Saïda (1881)
Around 190 hundred immigrants of Spanish origin, most of them day labourers working in the ''esparto'' harvest, were killed on 11 June 1881 in French Algeria (in the countryside around Saïda) by members of the insurgent movement led by Bou-Amama. Development The Franco-Algerian Company hired day labourers across the impoverished Spanish South-East to work in the ''esparto'' harvest in Algeria offering passage and travel to their families, although eventually day labourers were forced to pay for their travel and to buy their food at a company's store. Following the outbreak of a rebellion in Tunisia, the instability moved to Algeria in late April 1881, with Bou-Amama taking the lead of the movement against the French occupation. Then, on 11 June 1881, following the seizure of Khalfallah by insurgents, around 190 Spanish esparto harvesters (most of them from Almería, and the rest from Murcia and Alicante) were put to the sword in Khalfallah, in the surroundings of Saïda (to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |