Saïl Mohamed Ameriane ben Amerzaine joined the Union Anarchiste (UA) after World War one. In 1923 he founded the Committee for the Defence of Indigenous Algerians. In the late 20's he he created the Section of Indigenous Algerians in the CGT-SR. After the Francoist uprising in Spain, Saïl joined the Sebastian Faure Century, the French-speaking section of the Durruti Column. At the start of the Second World War, he was arrested again and put in a concentration camp at Riom. From 1944 he worked with others for the reconstruction of the anarchist movement.
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