Abdul Fattah Ismail

Abdul Fattah Ismail
Abdul Fattah Ismail
عبد الفتاح إسماعيل
	Abdul Fattah Ismail in 1979
Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme People's Council (South Yemen)
	In office; August 1971 – 21 April 1980
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Ali Nasir Muhammad
1st General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party
	In office; 21 December 1978 – 21 April 1980
Preceded by	Position established; (himself as Secretary-General of the National Liberation Front)
Succeeded by	Ali Nasir Muhammad
Secretary-General of the National Liberation Front
	In office; 22 June 1969 – 21 December 1978
President	Salim Rubai Ali
Preceded by	Qahtan al-Shaabi
Succeeded by	Position abolished; (himself as General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party)
Personal details
Born	28 July 1939; Ta'izz, Kingdom of Yemen
Died	13 January 1986 (aged 46); Aden, South Yemen
Political party	Yemeni Socialist Party
Residence	Aden
Profession	Oil refinery worker, teacher
Awards	Order of Friendship of Peoples ; ;
Military service
Allegiance	NLF; South Yemen
Battles/wars	Aden Emergency; First Yemenite War; Second Yemenite War;

Abdul Fattah Ismail Ali Al-Jawfi (Arabic: عبد الفتاح إسماعيل علي الجوفي, romanized: ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Ismāʿīl; 28 July 1939 – 13 January 1986) was a Yemeni Marxist politician and revolutionary who was the de facto leader of South Yemen from 1978 to 1980 after the overthrow of President Salim Rubaya Ali. He served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council (head of state) and founder, chief ideologue and first leader of the Yemeni Socialist Party from 21 December 1978 to 21 April 1980. He died under mysterious circumstances during the 1986 South Yemen Civil War and his body was never found.^[4]

^ https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/430/1/Halliday_Aspects%20of%20South%20Yemen%27s%20foreign%20policy.pdf
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^ "عبدالفتاح إسماعيل الرئيس الفدائي". خيوط. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
^ "4 executed in S. Yemen coup plot". Chicago Sun-Times. 14 January 1986. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2012.

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[3] "عبدالفتاح إسماعيل الرئيس الفدائي". خيوط. Retrieved 19 September 2023.

[4] "4 executed in S. Yemen coup plot". Chicago Sun-Times. 14 January 1986. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2012.

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