Editing Mohammed Boudiaf (section)

==Algerian war of independence==

{{Main|Declaration of 1 November 1954}}
The CRUA re-emerged as the [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|Front de Libération Nationale]], or FLN, which began a nationwide [[Algerian War of Independence|armed insurrection]] against [[France]] on November 1, 1954. Boudiaf was by this time a main leader of the movement, and emerged as an important member of the exiled leadership working from [[Cairo]] and Algeria's neighbouring countries. In 1956, he was captured along with [[Ahmed Ben Bella]] and several other FLN leaders in a controversial [[aircraft hijacking]] by French forces, and imprisoned in France. While prisoner, he was symbolically elected minister in the FLN's [[government-in-exile]], the [[Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic|GPRA]], at its creation in 1958, and re-elected in 1960 and 1961. Additionally, he was named one of the [[Vice President of Algeria|Vice Presidents]].<ref name="algeriancabinets">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bp8IfVxOcEQC&pg=PA294|title=Algeria: The Politics of a Socialist Revolution|first1=Professor Marina|last1=Ottaway|first2=David|last2=Ottaway|first3=Marina|last3=Ottaway|date=December 15, 1970|publisher=University of California Press|via=Google Books}}</ref> He was not released until immediately before the independence of Algeria in 1962, after a brutal eight-year war that had cost between 350,000 and 1.5 million lives.<ref>Horne, Alistair. A Savage War of Peace. p. 538.</ref>