Les bandits d’honneur de Kabylie, à la fin du 19eme siècle : Cas des frères Abdoun d’Ath Djennad

Abstract

At the end of the 19th century, Kabylie experienced a kind of banditism born in the colonial repressive and spoliation politics. The bandit of honor is a rebel, an insurgent refuting the colonial order. This banditry is a consequence of the political, administrative and economic reorganization that dismantled and destroyed the Kabyle society.

  Emblematic figures emerged in this context, the brothers Abdoun Ahmed Said and Mohand Oulhadj come from a highly respected Maraboutique family from the Douar Ath Djennad situated at the top of Sebaou area.

They chooses this way to carry out a family revenge, and in the same time to make challenge for the colonial authority, as well as Arezki El Bashir from Douar Ath Ghobri who also rebelled against spoliation politics. A short-term strategic and circumstantial union contracted between the two rebels in 1893.

A sudden and tragic end sounded the death knell of these vigilantes, because Arezki El Bashir and Ahmed Said Ou Abdoun were convicted and then executed on May 14, 1895 on a public place.