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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 30, 1963
Algerian Militarists Continue Resistance
ALGIERS—(UPI) —The dissident commander of the Algerian 7th military district in the opposition stronghold of Ti I-Ou Ou today rejected a government edict dismissing him and ordered his battle-hardened troops on general alert.
Col. Mohand Ou El Hadj, known as "the old man" to the men he led in Algeria's $7\frac{1}{2}$ year war of independence from France, announced through a spokesman he will not bow to the order issued by President Ben Bella's government.
He vowed to continue his command in the rugged Grand Kabylia Region east of Algiers where opposition leaders, backed by regional civilian and military authorities launched a movement against the "illegal" government of Ben Bella in a mass rally yesterday.
DISSIDENT BERBER leader Hocine Ait Ahmed led the demonstration of some 3,500 adherents in Ti I-Ou Ou, 60 miles east of Algiers, and exhorted all militants to begin a decisive fight against the one-party Ben Bella regime.
Tension mounted today between the two-week-old strong man government headed by Ben Bella and the clandestine Front of Socialist Forces (FFS) which is headed by Ait Ahmed and of which El Hadj is a member. A test of strength appeared inevitable.
Ben Bella, caught by surprise by the mass anti-government demonstration, branded Col. Mohand as an adventurer.
Following an emergency cabinet meeting, the president ordered his dismissal and placed the 7th Military Region under direct orders of the defense ministry.
Troops of the 7th military district made no move to intervene yesterday when the anti-government forces staged their demonstration in Ti-I-Ou Ou. Col Mohand himself appeared on the speakers' platform along with the government prefect (governor) of the Kabylia region.
TODAY, A spokesman for the rebellious commander said: "Col. Mohand remains at the head of the 7th region."
Troops of the Algerian army in Grand Kabylia have during recent months been recruited at Mohand's specific request from among the
Berber clans, Non-Arab peoples who have been hostile to the Algiers government.
Col Mohand left his command post for Michelet, another Kabylia town west of Ti I-Ou Ou today for a hasty conference with Ait Ahmed, who broke with Ben Bella recently and quit as vice-premier.
Shortly afterward, the FFS issued a communique mocking Ben Bella's dismissal of Col. Mohand. It called the move ridiculous and vain and said it merely strengthened the opposition's desire to combat the Algiers regime with more ardor and resolution.
The opposition organization charged the move against Mohand was the latest in a long series of ousters of wartime rebel leaders.
In another surprise move, Ben Bell's righthand man, First Vice Premier and Defense Minister Col. Houari Boumedienne, flew off to Moscow today for talks with Soviet army leaders.
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