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Moroccan politician and military officer

GeneralSi Mohamed ben Ahmed Oufkir (Arabic: محمد أوفقير‎; 14 May 1920 − 16 August 1972)^[1][2] was a Moroccan senior military officer who held many important governmental posts.

It is believed that he was assassinated for his alleged role in the failed 1972 Moroccan coup attempt.

Biography

Mohamed Oufkir was a native of Aïn Chaïr [fr], in the Tafilalt region, the stronghold of high Atlas Moroccan Berbers, in southeastern Morocco, where his father was appointed pasha by Hubert Lyautey in 1910.

He studied at the Berber College of Azrou near Meknes.

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In 1939, he entered the Military Academy of Dar El Beida, and in 1941, he enlisted as a reserve lieutenant in the French Army.

During World War II, he served with distinction in the French Expeditionary Corps (4th Regiment of Moroccan Tirailleurs) on the Italian front in 1944, where he won the Croix de Guerre.

He was also awarded the