Former Algerian Defense Minister General Khaled Nizar attacked army chief of staff Lieutenant General Kayed Saleh and criticized the Algerian military court for an international arrest warrant.
"Attacking the policy of the Algerian army chief of staff, Ahmed Kayed Saleh, is a national security issue," Nizar said at a Twitter account.
He added that this is "the dictum of hummus inside his head", a French term for "limited thought and stupidity," stressing that these are the dark days reserved for Algeria, in reference to Qaid Saleh.
"The peaceful movement forced Bouteflika to resign, but the power was seized by military force and the constitution was breached by illegal interventions," the retired general said.
"Algeria is currently hostage to a rude person who imposed the fourth mandate, which inspired the fifth mandate, and should be brought to an end, the country is in danger."
The former prime minister was trying to beat one of the Algerians with his stick after accusing him of involvement in bloodshed during the country's black decade.
S'attaquer politiquement à Gaid Salah est pour lui une affaire de sécurité nationale, c'est ce que lui dicte le pois chiche qu'il a dans la tête. Ce sont des jours sombres qu'il réserve à l'Algérie. - Khaled Nezzar (@ KhaledNezzar8) August 6, 2019 |
International arrest warrant
The Algerian military court issued earlier today an international request for the arrest of the former Minister of Defense and his son Lotfi Nizar, and the Algerian company of the Algerian pharmaceutical company, Hamidin Farid; on charges of conspiring and disturbing the public order.
A few weeks ago, Nizar, who served as defense minister from 1990 to 1994, and his family traveled to Spain for treatment, according to local media, and has not returned since.
On 26 July, Khaled Nizar wrote a tweet on Twitter, confirming his retreat from entering Algeria, citing a plan to arrest him by the authorities.
He confirmed in another tweet that he was about to return to Algeria when he received information indicating his intention to arrest him upon entering the country. "I will return to the country when the situation is normalized and when a democratic president is elected," he said.
Nizar testified before the military judge in Balida in April about what he and al-Said had with the brother of resigning President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Said and former intelligence officials, such as Mohamed Madin and Othman Tartak, are subject to pre-trial detention on charges of attempting to overthrow the army, spreading chaos, imposing a state of emergency and suppressing popular movement to extend Bouteflika's rule.
He halted the democratic process and plunged the country into civil war. |
The former Defense Minister's call came after the end of April of a plot planned by al-Said Bouteflika to deal with the movement, his efforts to declare an emergency and an attempt to end the tasks of Army Chief of Staff Ahmed Kayed Saleh.
Nizar was one of the most prominent generals in stopping the electoral process in 1992, after the victory of the Islamic Salvation Front, known as one of the most prominent military deserters fleeing the French army who joined the liberation revolution (1954-1962), just months before the independence of Algeria from France.
General Nizar, 81, has been prosecuted in Switzerland in recent years for war crimes and other crimes against humanity during the black decade of Algeria in the 1990s.
But the Swiss prosecutor announced in early 2017 that it had not been able to prove that the armed confrontations between 1992 and 1999 in Algeria were an armed conflict and therefore could not be applied to the Geneva Conventions.