# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hassan-ii-of-morocco
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:53:09.969Z

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name: "Hassan II of Morocco"
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description: "He survived two coup attempts, organized a march of 350,000 civilians to claim a disputed territory, and ruled Morocco for 38 years through a mix of strategic diplomacy and iron control — a reign later investigated for systematic human rights abuses."
tagline: "King of Morocco from 1961 to 1999"
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birthDate: "1929-07-09"
deathDate: "1999-07-23"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Rabat in 1929, Hassan was groomed for power from childhood: traditional Islamic schooling, legal studies in Bordeaux, then exile and independence negotiations beside his father, Mohammed V. He took the throne in 1961 inheriting a fractured state — foreign-held territory, scattered military, party-run police — and moved fast to centralize. A constitution in 1962 gave Morocco multi-party trappings but kept real power in the palace. Unrest came quickly: border war with Algeria in 1963, mass protests in Casablanca in 1965, then years of rule by decree. In 1971 and 1972, his own military tried twice to kill him; both times he walked away and tightened his grip. The Green March of 1975 sent hundreds of thousands on foot into Spanish Sahara, securing Moroccan control and igniting a conflict that never ended. He held the West close, kept the economy moving, and ran what became known as the Years of Lead — a period of disappearances and repression that an official commission would later catalog. He died in Rabat in July 1999, and his son Mohammed VI opened the accounting.