Lamine Khene

Who is Lamine Khene?

Dr. Lamine Khene is an Algerian nationalist politician and former officer. At age 16, he joined the Parti du peuple algérien and its successor organization MTLD. Later, he joined the Front de libération nationale, to become an officer in its military wing, the Armée de libération nationale 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 Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Algérienne between 1958 and 1960.