Lamine Khene

Lamine Abderrahman Khene, was an Algerian nationalist politician and officer.

Life

At age 16, he joined the Algerian People's Party and its successor organization, the MTLD. Later, he joined the National Liberation Front, to become an officer in its military wing, the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War of Independence, in which he fought as a guerrilla soldier from 1955. A medical student, in 1956, he was one of the co-founders of the Union générale des étudiants musulmans algériens, the FLN's student organization which later became the national student organization of Algeria.
He served as a secretary of state in the first lineup of the provisional exile government of the FLN, the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic between 1958 and 1960.