Mehdi Ben Barka

Pierre Boulat

Mehdi Ben Barka
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At work with members of the National Trade Union of Popular Forces, most important leftist party opposed to the royal regime, he had created.
Mehdi Ben Barka
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At work with members of the National Trade Union of Popular Forces, most important leftist party opposed to the royal regime, he had created.
Mehdi Ben Barka
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Arguing with a visitor. Ben Barka used to get up at 8.00 o'clock over breakfast of mint tea and bed and butter.
Mehdi Ben Barka
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Arguing with a visitor. Ben Barka used to get up at 8.00 o'clock over breakfast of mint tea and bed and butter.
Mehdi Ben Barka
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In the printing of his opposition paper in Rabat
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With general Oufkir in the Royal Palace in Rabat
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With three of his children: Fawz (6), Bachir (9) and his adopted daugter Bahia (6)
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Correcting Fawz homework with Bachir and Bahija
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At home with three of his children : Fawz, Bachir and Bahija
Mehdi Ben Barka
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A home with three of his children : Fawz, Bachir and Bahija
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n the kitchen with his wife Rhita and their children They had 4 children plus twin sons.
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With his wife and 1 1/2 twin sons, Saad and Mansour.
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Receiving an old man who wears traditional jelab.
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Meeting with a group of students in Rabat.
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During a meeting of 200 followers including veiled women with children.
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In his home office in Rabat.
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Meeting with members of Istiqlal, opposition party he was for a while organizer.
Mehdi Ben Barka
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During one of his numerous visit to the villages. Rather than big meetings, he preferred small group of not more than 50 people.
Mehdi Ben Barka
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During one of his numerous visit to the villages. Rather than big meetings, he preferred small group of not more than 50 people.
Mehdi Ben Barka
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During one of his numerous visit to the villages. Rather than big meetings, he preferred small group of not more than 50 people.

El Mehdi Ben Barka El Mehdi Ben Barka was a Moroccan politician, a leading Socialist opponent to the king Hassan II. One of the founders of the Istiqlal, which played a major role in the independence of Morocco,.As too conservative party, he caused in 1959 a split and founded the UNFP (National Union of Popular Forces) main left party opposed to the royal diet. It was at this time that Life Magazine asked Pierre Boulat to realize a portrait of him.
Sentenced to death in absentia for conspiracy and assassination attempt against King March 14, 1964, Mehdi Ben Barka was exiled and became the “Salesman of the revolution.” It attempts to unite the revolutionary movements in the Third World for the Tricontinental Conference in Havana planed for January 1966. This revolutionary fervor earned him to be kidnapped in Paris October 26, 1965, probably by the Moroccan and French political powers.
50 years later, his body has not been found and the truth about never revealed below its removal.