Mohamed Hassan El Ouazzani

Mohamed Hassan El Ouazzani (1910 with Fès - September 9th 1978) was a Moroccan political personality .

He largely dissociates political leaders that the Morocco knew, that it is during the years of national fight or after the proclamation of the independence of the Kingdom. Mahjoubi Aherdane, which knew it very near during the years of ember, affirms that “Mohamed Hassan El Ouazzani suffered much more during the years of independence than during those from protectorate”. Fire Ali Yata, another leader and founder of the old Moroccan Communist party (today PS) underlines, for its part, that “Mohamed Hassan El Ouazzani is incontestably one of the founding fathers of the national fight for independence”.
For its part, fire Abderrahim Bouabid, the charismatic leader of USFP, considers that the leader of the Party of Choura and the Istiqlal (pi) “was a reference, a Master and an example for his companions of fight. Its daring integrity, its uprightness and its attitudes and its wisdom with any test made of him a common inheritance of all the Morrocans of all the social layers, of all the political sensibilities and cultural”.

One half-century with the service of the fatherland

Mohamed Hassan El Ouazzani was born in 1910 with Fès, wire of a land big landowner, it makes his studies with the college Moulay Idriss, then with the Gouraud college with Rabat. He passes his baccalaureat to the Charlemagne college to Paris, then between at the institute of political studies. L also follows the language classes Eastern and of the institute of journalism. With the proclamation of protectorate, it was hardly two years old, but it is at an early age that it engaged in the national movement.

September 9th, 1978, it will leave us at the end of an exemplary nationalist course. A life dedicated to freedom, the pluralist ideas and the press authentically independent.

One half-century of resistance to all the operations colonialists, the point to make of Mohamed Hassan El Ouazzani a phenomenon of the Moroccan political life.

In its step, the fight for independence was also that of the democracy, pluralism and the Rule of law. It is what will make of him a precursor. It will prepare its doctorate of political sciences in Suisse and benefits from it to create one of the very first political structures, namely association of the Moslem students in France.

On its return to the Morocco, it founds Koutla of the national action and writes the text of the reform proposals interns claimed as of the Thirties by the pioneers of the national movement.

To use the language of the occupant to fight it

In 1933, it launches newspaper “Al Maghrib” and will be, a few years later, the editor association and the mainstay of a newspaper pioneer “the action of the People”, the official body of Koutla of the National action. A publication for which it chose the French language. Another manner of using the language of the occupant to fight it with.

All the political circles agree to regard Mohamed Hassan El Ouazzani as being authenticates it pioneer of the written press to the Morocco. Thus it will launch back-to-back several publications of which, in particular, the daily newspaper “Array El Am” (the public opinion), “Addoustour” (the Constitution) “Assyassa” (the policy) and “Assaiha” (the call). But what distinguished more Mohamed Hassan El Ouazzani is the regularity of his chronicles and texts which it published in the various newspapers that it on the occasion to publish during these years of anti-colonial fight then during the first years of independence. He was the first Moroccan journalist to create a French-speaking newspaper the Action of the people .

Last nine years of exile in the Sahara

After the scission of Koutla of the National action, it founded famous “Haraka Al Kaoumia” to thwart its adversaries of the national movement chaired by fire Allal El Fassi, the future president and leader of the Party of Istiqlal. This mobility which will take thereafter the name of the Party of Choura and the Istiqlal (the Party of the Democracy and Independence PDI).

In 1937, it will be stopped and exiled in the Sahara during nine years in the penitentiaries of Akka, Tata, Tagounit, Goulmima and Itzer.

Released in 1946, it will take again its political action and will choose to settle definitively with the Cairo where it will continue its fight for the independence of the countries of the the Maghreb and for the realization of its ideals panarabes.

His route will be also retained that it had ensured the permanent secretariat of the large Arab leader, Chakib Arsalane, and that he was also member of the office of the Arab Maghreb in Cairo which joined together the elite of the Moroccan political militants, Algerian and Tunisian and that some chaired Abdelkrim El Khattabi, member of the Moroccan delegation having defended the national cause near the movement of non-aligned in Bandoeng in 1955. The occasion of côtoyer, inter alia, the presidents Egyptian Gamal Abdel Nasser, indonésien Sukarno, Indian Jawaharlal Nehru without forgetting the Tunisian leader Habib Bourguiba. It will go égalelment to the the United Nations to defend the Moroccan cause.

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