Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Si Tayeb el Watani (Arabic) Muhammad Boudiaf (English) place image here Became President: 16 January, 1992 Predecessor: Chadli Bendjedid Date of Birth: 1919 Place of Birth: Muhammad Boudiaf (1919-1992), also called Si Tayeb el Watani, was an Algerian political leader and one of the founders of the revolutionary National Liberation Front (FLN) that led the Algerian war of independence (1954–1962). In February 1992, after a 27-year exile in Morocco, he became chairman of the High Council of State of Algeria. On June 29, 1992, he was assassinated by his guards during a public speech at the opening of a cultural center in Annaba. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.