Aboubakr Belkaid

Aboubakr Belkaid, sometimes spelled Abou Bekr Belkaid, (in Arabic: أبو بكر بلقايد), was an Algerian politician born on 19 March 1934 in Tlemcen. He held several ministerial positions between 1965 and 1992 and was assassinated on September 28, 1995, in Port Saïd Square in Algiers.

On his tomb at the cemetery of El Alia in Algiers, the following words are inscribed: "The battles that we lose are the ones that we do not engage in."