For the 60th anniversary of #Fanon-s death in 2021, the #AinKerma cemetery and a small public garden attached to a public hospital,both named after him, had been renovated, also upon request by his family, a representative of the local baladeya tells me #Algeria #FrantzFanon 3/
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In the small town of #AinKerma near the #Tunisia-n border, #FrantzFanon is burried on a cemetery of the martyrs, one of hundreds of mostly small cemeteries in Eastern and Central #Algeria that provide the last resting places for those killed during the war of independence 2/
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Before his death in 1961, revolutionary psychiatrist and anti-colonial writer Frantz Fanon requested to be burried on liberated #Algeria-n soil. Initially buried in Sidi Trad in Tunisia, his body was transfered to #AinKerma in East Algeria in 1965 and rests there until today 1/