Youth and Background
Ali Beiba was born in 1953 in El Aaiún, the capital of the territory then called Spanish Sahara. He studied in several Quranic schools, then the Primary and Secondary education at Spanish colonial schools, although he did not finish his studies because of family issues. As a child in El Aaiún, the Zemla Intifada occurred, in which an unknown number of Sahrawi civilians were killed by the Spanish Legion in a demonstration.
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