Mohamed Aïchaoui

[10][11] Aïchaoui was a political orator during World War II after evading compulsory military service in France, citing illness.

[12] Aïchaoui pled the nationalist cause with young athletes returning from training, discussing their favorite sport and moving on to colonial Algeria, its history, and its need for independence.

[3][13] Aïchaoui's interest in literature and journalism stemmed from a desire to appeal to the Algerian elite, driving him to improve his language and writing.

[21][22][23] Aïchaoui met Algerian political leader Mohamed Boudiaf and nationalist activist Mourad Didouche when he was a journalism intern in France in 1950, and they recruited him into the Special Organisation.

[28][39][40] The 1954 outbreak of the revolution prompted a group of six people to prepare the final version of the revolutionary declaration after its broad outlines were agreed at a 10 October 1954 meeting in El Mouradia.

[41][42][43] When CRUA asked Aïchaoui to write the declaration, the messalists[clarification needed] attempted to physically intimidate him in Belcourt (Belouizdad).

[47][48][49] Bitat introduced Aïchaoui to his friend, Amar Ouamrane, who accompanied him from a Belcourt café to Tizi Ouzou; activist Ali Zamoum then brought him to the targeted village.

[50][51][52] Zamoum provided Aïchaoui with the wherewithal for his secret mission (often carried out at night), and the journalist returned to Algiers by the same route to be ready for large-scale distribution of the leaflets on the evening of 1 November 1954.

[61][62][63][better source needed] He was arrested by the French occupation forces with all the people known to belong to the Algerian national movement, and wrote to the judicial authorities and public prosecutor protesting their methods of interrogation and torture.

[70][20][71] Aïchaoui published Guerilla (a newsletter for the region's resistance fighters), and helped investigate the destruction of the village of Djerrah by French aircraft.