Mohamed Larbi Zitout
Mohamed Larbi Zitout, is a former Algerian diplomat, born on 29 July 1963 in Laghouat, Algeria.Biography
After graduating from the in Algiers and obtaining a master's degree in International Relations, he pursued a career in diplomacy. By 1995, he was a civil servant in Libya. In 1995, however - three years into the Algerian Civil War - he resigned from his position and emigrated to the United Kingdom
He has been interviewed or appeared commentator in a number of newspapers and broadcast media, such as the BBC, ABC and Al-Jazeera, and has contributed chapters to An Inquiry into the Algerian Massacres and Quelle réconciliation pour l'Algérie? He is a founding member of Justitia Universalis, a human rights organisation set up in 2001 dedicated to fighting impunity.
