Maurice Laban

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Maurice Laban (born October 1914 at Biskra, died 5 June 1956 at Boudouane), a pied-noir, was a founding member of the Algerian Communist Party (PCA). In 1936, he joined the International Brigades to fight in the Spanish Civil War [1][2].

In the mid-1950s, he was a member of the Combattants de la Libération, the guerrila group established by the PCA after the outbreak of the Algerian War of Independence[3]. Along with Henri Maillot, another European member of the guerilla group, he was among those killed when an informer betrayed their position to a unit of the French Army[4][5]. The band were sighted near Lamartine, east of Orléansville, an area which had not previously contained guerillas. They were pursued and attacked outside the Muslim village of Boudouane; seven members of the group were killed, among them Laban and Maillot.


[edit] References

  1. ^ "Algeria, 1914-1944". 
  2. ^ Jean-Luc Einaudi (1999). Un Algérien, Maurice Laban. ISBN 2862746401. 
  3. ^ Bouzeghrane Nadjia. "Maurice laban, mort au maquis", El Watan, 2004-11-01. 
  4. ^ Mitch Abidor. "The Algerian Communist Party in the War". 
  5. ^ Merzak Chertouk. "Henri Maillot et Maurice Laban, héros « oubliés »", El Watan, 2007-06-18. 


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