A French court convicted him of the murder. One of his most famous victims is believed to have been celebrated Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka, who had " disappeared" in Paris in 1965. A feared figure in dissident circles, he was considered extraordinarily close to power.
He forcefully repressed political protest through police and military clampdowns, pervasive government espionage, show trials, and numerous extralegal measures such as killings and forced disappearances. Īs the right-hand man of King Hassan II in the 1960s and early 1970s, Oufkir led government supervision of politicians, unionists and the religious establishment. In 1949 he was promoted captain and named to the Legion d'Honneur. After the war, he fought with the French Far East Expeditionary Corps in the First Indochina War from 1947 to 1949, where his bravery was dubbed "legendary". Clark's chief of staff, after the Battle of Monte Cassino. He was also awarded the Silver Star in 1944 by U.S. In 1939, he entered the Military Academy of Dar El Beida ( Meknes), and in 1941, he enlisted as a reserve lieutenant in the French Army.ĭuring 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 studied at the Berber College of Azrou near Meknes. Mohamed Oufkir was a native of Aïn Chaïr, 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. It is believed that he was assassinated for his alleged role in the failed 1972 Moroccan coup attempt. General Mohammad Oufkir ( Arabic: محمد أوفقير − 16 August 1972) was a Moroccan senior military officer who held many important governmental posts. Forced disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka, 1972 Moroccan coup attempt
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