Djamila bouhired biography of mahatma gandhi in english

Algerian nationalist, activist and revolutionary Bouhired is considered a freedom fighter, Arab icon and a hero. She was educated in Algiers at a school that inculcated in its students the belief that they were French.

Djamila Bouhired (Arabic: جميلة بوحيرد, born June ) is an Algerian nationalist militant, who opposed the French colonial rule of Algeria as a member of the National Liberation Front.

Like virtually all of the young Algerians fortunate enough in the s to find themselves in school, and the great majority were not, she was raised with a French cultural consciousness and never learned to read or write in Arabic, the language that she and her family spoke at home. When she was in the school, she discovered her revolutionary spirit.

When all the Algerian students repeated every morning "France is our mother", Bouhired would stand up and scream "Algeria is our mother! From this time, Bouhired was drawn to the revolutionary cause. Aged 20, she started her national activism against the French colonization when the revolution broke in after years of French occupation. She worked as a liaison officer and personal assistant to FLN commander Yacef Saadi in Algiers, and was the first to volunteer to plant bombs on roads used by the French military occupation.

Her brothers were also involved in the underground struggle. During a raid in June , Bouhired was arrested and accused of planting bombs in French restaurants around the Algerian capital.

As she entered middle-age, Djamila Bouhired became part of the history of not only her own country but the history of women seeking emancipation and equality in the modern Muslim world.

Bouhired said that she was severely tortured to force her to reveal about FLN leader, but she did not. Despite his efforts, she was convicted and sentenced to death. The Arab countries started a campaign that resulted in immense pressure being put on France by international governments and human rights organizations. As a result, Bouhired was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Following the end of the French occupation in Algeria in Bouhired was released.