Farhat Hached

Farhat Hached
فرحات حشاد
Farhat Hached
Personal details
Born(1914-02-02)February 2, 1914
El Abassia, Kerkennah Islands, French Tunisia
DiedDecember 5, 1952(1952-12-05) (aged 38)
The roadside near Radès, French Tunisia
ProfessionTrades Union Leader
Independence Movement leader

Farhat Hached (Arabic: فرحات حشاد; 2 February 1914 – 5 December 1952[1]) was a Tunisian labor unionist and activist who was assassinated by La Main Rouge, a French terrorist organization operated by French foreign intelligence.[2][3] He was one of the leaders of the pro-independence Tunisian national movement, along with Habib Bourguiba and Salah ben Youssef. His assassination is attributed to La Main Rouge (The Red Hand), an armed organisation that favoured a French presence in Tunisia. More recently, on 18 December 2009, it was confirmed to the Al Jazeera news organisation, by a man called Antoine Méléro, who claimed to be a former Main Rouge member, that the Main Rouge had been a military wing of the French Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service) or SDECE.[2][3]

  1. ^ "NATIONALIST CHIEF IS SLAIN IN TUNISIA AS U. N. WEIGHS PLEA; Labor Leader Found Riddled With Bullets in Protectorate -- Native Tension Rises FRENCH CONDEMN TERROR Followers of Victim Attribute Act to 'Red Hand' Extremists -- Accuse Regime of Laxity Tunisian Leader Is Found Slain; Nationalists Blame Native Terror". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  2. ^ a b Rob Prince (5 December 2012). "Tunisia: Siliana and the heritage of Farhat Hached sixty years after his assassination". openDemocracy. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  3. ^ a b Youssef (8 July 2013). "Les archives sur l'assassinat de Farhat Hached écartent toute implication tunisienne". Webdo. Retrieved 21 July 2016.