Editing Lounès Matoub (section)

==Political events==
During the [[1988 October Riots|riots in October 1988]], Matoub was shot five times by a policeman<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 June 2019 |title=Remembering Lounes Matoub on the 21st Anniversary of his Assassination |url=https://insidearabia.com/remembering-lounes-matoub-on-the-21st-anniversary-of-his-assassination/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122225657/https://insidearabia.com/remembering-lounes-matoub-on-the-21st-anniversary-of-his-assassination/ |archive-date=22 January 2022 |access-date=26 May 2022 |website=Inside Arabia |language=en-US}}</ref> and left for dead on the side of the road.<ref name=":1" /> He was hospitalised for two years, requiring 17 surgeries, including the insertion of an artificial scrotum and the contraction of his leg by {{cvt|5|cm}}. His 1989 album ''L'Ironie du sort'' describes his long convalescence.

During the civil war, which began in 1992, the Islamist Armed Islamic Group added his name to a hitlist of artists and intellectuals. Despite this, Matoub remained in [[Algeria]]. On 25 September 1994, he was abducted. He was held for two weeks in a GIA mountain stronghold and condemned to death. He was released only after a large public demonstration in which his supporters from the {{Ill|Mouvement culturel berbère|lt=MCB|fr|Mouvement culturel berbère}} threatened "total war" on the Islamists and when he swore an oath to discontinue his musical career.<ref name=":1" />

In 1994, he published his autobiography entitled ''Rebelle'' (Paris: Stock, 1995).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sueur |first=James D. Le |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Algeria_since_1989/RPxiDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lounes%20matoub%20Rebelle%201994%20autobiography&pg=RA1-PA1921&printsec=frontcover |title=Algeria since 1989: Between Terror and Democracy |date=2013-04-04 |publisher=Zed Books Ltd. |isbn=978-1-84813-610-6 |language=en}}</ref>