Who is the martyr Hama Lakhdar?
Definition of the martyr
About the martyr Hama Lakhdar
He is the martyred leader Mujahid Muhammad Al-Akhdar Amara, known as (Hama Lakhdar), who was born in the town of Al-Jadida, affiliated with the municipality of Al-Dabila, around the year 1930, in a conservative rural family, known for its adherence to religious and national values. Its members lived by herding sheep and camels in the desert adjacent to Wadi Souf, and they used to stay there for some days of the year. His father enrolled him in a school, so he memorized some of the surahs of the Holy Quran, but he stopped to practice herding until the age of twenty.
Beginnings
But the love of adventure, the revolution against the miserable situation, and the response to the injustice of the colonizer, generated in him a new spirit that prompted him to travel to the Tunisian city of Gafsa, and bring some weapons. He kept one and sold the rest at the insistence of his father, then he preferred to flee from that reality to work in the town of Sidi Naji, but he returned at the request and insistence of his father, and settled with him, and the revolution continued to burn in his soul for a while.
The Martyr and the Liberation Revolution
When the liberation revolution broke out, he joined it and became the leader of several battles, the most important of which was the Battle of Hassi Khalifa on November 17, 1954, which was the first battle of the Algerian revolution, and which immortalized the Wadi Souf region with its revolutionary exploits, and made it a pioneer in this field. He also led the Battle of Sahn al-Rtam on March 15, 1955, commissioned by the Aures leadership, and the Battle of Hood Chika Dakhla within the events of August 20, 1955, when the leadership sent him on a patrol to collect weapons, and sudden circumstances occurred that forced him to fight the battle, led by Hama Lakhdar. It was one of the largest battles of the Algerian revolution, in which France used aircraft, equipment, hundreds of soldiers and foreign legion forces, and lasted from August 8 to 10, 1955, and in it Hama Lakhdar and most of the members of his battalion were martyred.
Battle of the Valley
It was a battle that prompted the French governor to come to the valley himself to shed tears for the dozens of French soldiers who fell on the battlefield, and the poet of the revolution, Mufdi Zakaria, immortalized this in his Iliad:
I forget three days of misfortune * And Sostal laments among the mourners
And green harvests the red crops in it and cuts the figs from it
