He is the martyr Mujahid leader Muhammad Al-Akhdar Amara, known as (Hama Lakhdar), who was born in the town of Al-Jadida, affiliated with the municipality of Al-Dabila, around the year 1930, into a conservative rural family, known for its adherence to religious and national values, and its members lived by grazing sheep and camels in the desert adjacent to Wadi Souf. It settles in some days of the year, and his father introduced him to a book, so he memorized some surahs of the Holy Qur’an, but he stopped practicing herding until the age of twenty.
But the love of adventure, revolt against the miserable situation, and response to the injustice of the colonizers, generated a new spirit in him that prompted him to travel to the Tunisian city of Gafsa and bring some weapons. He kept one and sold the rest at the insistence of his father, then he preferred to flee that reality to work in the town of Sidi. Naji, but he returned at the request and insistence of his father, and settled with him, and the revolution continued to rage within him for a while.
When the liberation revolution broke out, he joined in it, and became a commander of several battles, the most important of which was the Battle of Hassi Khalifa on November 17, 1954, which was the first battle of the Algerian Revolution, and which immortalized the Wadi Souf region with its revolutionary exploits, and made it a pioneer in this field. He also led the Battle of Sahn Al-Rutam on 15 March 1955, commissioned by the Aures Command, and the battle of Hood Chika, included within the events of August 20, 1955, when the command sent him on a patrol to collect weapons, and sudden circumstances occurred that forced him to go into battle, under the leadership of Hama Lakhdar, and it was one of the largest battles of the Algerian revolution, in which France used aircraft, equipment, and hundreds Soldiers and forces of the Foreign Legion, and it lasted from August 8 to 10, 1955, during which Hama Lakhdar and most of the members of his battalion were martyred.
It was a battle that called on the French ruler to personally come to the valley to shed tears for the dozens of French soldiers who fell on the battlefield, and the poet of the revolution, Mufdi Zakaria, immortalized this in his Iliad:
Forget three days of bad luck * and Soustal laments among those who mourn
And green, he reaps the red crops in it and cuts the two sides from it.
