Dr. Lamine Khene (6 March 1931 – 14 December 2020) was an Algerian nationalist politician and officer. At age 16, he joined the Parti du peuple algérien (PPA) and its successor organization MTLD. Later, he joined the Front de libération nationale (FLN), to become an officer in its military wing, the Armée de libération nationale (ALN) during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–61), in which he fought as a guerrilla soldier from 1955. A medical student, in 1956, he was one of the co-founders of the Union générale des étudiants musulmans algériens (UGEMA), the FLN's student organization which later became the national student organization of Algeria.
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6 March 1931
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14 December 2020 (aged 89)
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