Zohra Drif

Zohra Drif (1938 -) is a reprocessed lawyer and sénatrice Algérie, vice-president of the Conseil of the nation. It was also the wife of late the Rabah Bitat, one of the nine historical leaders of FLN. She is known in particular for her nationalist activities at the time of the Bataille of Algiers for the difficult period of the Guerre of Algeria, (1954 with 1962).

Biography

Zohra Drif was born in 1938 in a modest family from approximately from Tiaret, to 200 km in the south-east of Oran. Old of a little more than one score of year, she is revolted by the colonization of Algeria and the treatment difference of the Indigènes Moslems as they then were called. Coed with the Faculty of Law of Algiers, it falls under the fight for the independence of the country and on September 30th 1956. The cell of which it forms part, the responsibility of place a bomb in a café the Milk Bar attended by Pied-noir which kills three young women and makes a dozen casualties. Arrétée with Yacef Saadi in the Kasbah of Algiers, Zohra Drif is condemned in August 1958, at 20 years of forced labors by the military tribunal of Algiers for “Terrorisme”. Locked up then with the district of the women of the Barberousse prison, she saw in the obsession of the Capital punishment. In 1960, always in prison, it publishes its testimony entitled the Death of my brothers . Zohra Drif is finally pardoned by the Général de Gaulle at the time of the independence of Algeria in 1962.

See too

External bonds

  • “a law will not change the history” Interview of Zohra Drif-Bitat.

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