Algerian security forces accompany the coffin of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to the El-Alia cemetery in the capital Algiers on September 19, 2021. Ryad KRAMDI / AFP
The veteran strongman quit office in April 2019 after the military abandoned him following weeks of street protests sparked by his bid to run for a fifth presidential term.He had risen to power in 1999 on a wave of popular support as his amnesty offer to Islamist militants helped bring an end to a decade-long civil war.
The procession travelled from Bouteflika’s nursing home to the cemetery east of downtown Algiers, as bystanders filmed it with their mobile phones. The People’s Palace, where other presidents had lain in state, appeared to have been prepared to display his remains before the interment. However, the lying-in-state was cancelled, according to sources.
He wanted to surpass his mentor, the country’s second president Houari Boumediene, with accomplishments including a boost to Algeria’s regional influence and “to turn the page on the black decade” of civil war which killed around 200,000 people, University of Algiers politics lecturer Louisa Dris Ait Hamadouche said.
Algeria was largely spared the uprisings that swept the Arab world in 2011, something many credited to memories of the civil war and a boost in state handouts.
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