{"id":39163,"date":"2019-04-28T03:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T03:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39163"},"modified":"2019-04-28T03:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T03:23:41","slug":"exiled-leader-madani-buried-in-algiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39163","title":{"rendered":"Exiled leader Madani buried in Algiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1489041\/middle-east\" readability=\"48\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\nALGIERS: Abassi Madani, founder of Algeria\u2019s banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), was buried in the capital Algiers on Saturday days after his death in Qatar where he lived in exile, a security source said.<br \/>Madani had called for armed struggle in 1992 after Algeria\u2019s military scrapped the country\u2019s first multi-party parliamentary election which the FIS had won, and pushed for the creation of an Islamic state in the North African nation.<br \/>\u201cAbassi Madani will be buried today on Saturday in the El-Alia cemetery,\u201d in an eastern suburb of the capital near the airport, a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity.<br \/>Earlier, A source close to the family said Madani\u2019s body would arrive from Doha at around 11:25 GMT and would be taken to his home in the central Belcourt neighborhood of Algiers before the burial.<br \/>Senior FIS figure El-Hachemi Sahnouni said Madani could be buried either at the El-Alia cemetery or the Sidi Mohamed cemetery close to his home.<br \/>He died in a Doha hospital on Wednesday from a \u201clong illness\u201d at the age of 88, FIS co-founder Ali Belhadj said.<br \/>The FIS had been on track to win an absolute majority in the 1991-92 parliamentary election when the army canceled the second round, triggering a decade of civil war that left 200,000 dead, according to official figures.<br \/>Madani had been living in Qatar since 2003. He had fled into exile after serving a 12-year prison sentence in Algeria on charges predating the election.<br \/>For Algerians, Madani remained most associated with the bloodletting during the civil war that pitted the security forces against sometimes feuding armed groups.<br \/>He was imprisoned in 1991 and only called for an end to the violence in 1999, when his group said it was laying down its arms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALGIERS: Abassi Madani, founder of Algeria\u2019s banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), was buried in the capital Algiers on Saturday days after his death in Qatar where he lived in exile, a security source said.Madani had called for armed struggle in 1992 after Algeria\u2019s military scrapped the country\u2019s first multi-party parliamentary election which the FIS had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}