Despedida del Vicepresidente del Gobierno provisional de la República Argelina (GPRA), Belkacem Krim

Abstract

“Je ne cesserai pas mes activités tant que l'Algérie poursuivra sa lutte et je continuerai ma tâche jusqu'à mon dernier souffle.” (‘Frantz Fanon, notre frère’, El Moudjahid, 21 December 1961). In the name of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic, in the name of the Algerian people, in the name of all your brothers in struggle and in my personal capacity, I bid you farewell. Although you are dead, your memory will live on and will always be evoked by the noblest figures of our Revolution. Born into a large family, you experienced at a very early age the privations and humiliations which colonialists and racists inflict upon oppressed peoples. Despite these difficulties, you succeeded in becoming a brilliant student and then began an equally brilliant career as a doctor, especially at the psychiatric hospital in Blida. But even while you were at University, your desire to be a serious student did not prevent you from taking part in the anti-colonialist struggle; the heavy obligations you faced as a conscientious doctor did not interfere with your militant activities on behalf of your oppressed brothers. Indeed, it was through your professional activities that you arrived at a better understanding of the realities of colonialist oppression and became aware of the meaning of your commitment to the struggle against that oppression. Even before our Revolution was launched, you took a sustained interest in our liberation movement.