1998, Belkacem definitively gave up politics and went into exile in August 1967: "On August 4, 1967," she says, "he hastily packed his whole family with some effects in the family. Volkswagen and drive all night in to Morocco. The next day, he was sentenced in absentia." On October 17, 1967, he created with friends including Slimane Amirat, Colonels Amar Ouamrane and Mohand Oulhadj, the Movement for the Defense of the Algerian Revolution (MDRA), an underground party intended to fight against the Boumediene regime. Two years later, on October 18, 1970, he was found strangled with his tie in a room at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Frankfurt, presumably by Algerian military security agents. See also Algerian war List of assassinated people References 1922 births 1970 deaths People from Aït Yahia Moussa Kabyle people Algerian People's Party politicians Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties politicians Members of the National Liberation Front (Algeria) Assassinated Algerian politicians People sentenced to death in absentia French military personnel of World War II Vice presidents of Algeria People of the Algerian War Algerian people murdered abroad People murdered in Germany Foreign ministers of Algeria Defense ministers of Algeria Algerian Berber politicians 20th-century Algerian politicians Burials in Algeria