...Muhammad Ibn 'Abd El-Karim El-Khattabi...

par Admin Sam 22 Déc - 14:47

Abd el-Krim (c.1882, Ajdir –February 6, 1963, Cairo) (Mulay Abdelkrim, full name: Muhammad Ibn 'Abd El-Karim El-Khattabi,was the Berber leader of the Rif, a Berber area of northeastern Morocco. He became the leader of a wide scale armed resistance movement against French and Spanish colonial rule in North Africa. His guerilla tactics are known to have inspired Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara.
He entered the Spanish governmental structure, and was appointed chief qadi for Melilla in 1914, as well as editing the Arabic section of the newspaper El Telegrama del Rif.
In his time there, he came to oppose Spanish domination, and was imprisoned in 1915-1916 for saying that Spain should not expand beyond its current dominions (which in practice excluded most of the effectively ungoverned Rif), and for expressing sympathy for the Germans in World War I.[2] Soon after, he returned to Ajdir in 1919 and, with his brother, began to unite the tribes of the Rif into an independent Republic of the Rif. He made it clear that this Republic was strictly provisional, confirming his allegiance to the Moroccan throne and the royal family
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