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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jan 27, 2022 ^^
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My grandfather was one of the men who fought in this war, and he was arrested in the prison camps. He is now paralyzed as a result of torture in the prison camps. He told me many stories about what happened in those prison camps. The Algerians have never and will never forget what France did to their grandfathers, and a day will come when we will be held accountable.
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It's kind of insane to me that the French people (not all but many of them nonetheless), after having suffered harshly under Nazi occupation, did not collectively think that maybe their colonial subjects went through a similar oppressive experience under the yoke of French imperialism. Such self-reflection could've led to a more peaceful process of decolinization that would have saved countless lives and money. Rules for thee, but not for me is a cliché that comes to mind when thinking of this brutal war from the French perspective.
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The status of French Algeria was utterly hypocritical. On the one hand Algeria was officially not a colony but an integral part of France; yet on the ground it lived under a de facto apartheid regime, in which a minority of settler colonists confiscated all wealth and political power, and the majority of the population was not granted citizenship rights. Eventually the contradiction had to blow up, and blow up it did. The Pieds-Noirs were essentially the French Afrikaners.
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I think you should've touched 1961 Paris massacre of Algerians. While 200-400 dead protesters seems like a small death toll, compared to 1 million people dead in the Algerian war of independence, it was one of the most notable massacres in France as it was perpetuated by the French police and commanded by Maurice Papon, the chief of the police who was a Vichy collaborator responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to death camps.
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This is a fascinating independence struggle that few outside of France or Algeria understand or know of. I have read about this struggle shortly after my college years, but I have not thought about this war since then. Watching this video reminded me of the complexity or Cold War colonial politics.
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@hichemahmedsista6445
1 year ago
Proud that my grandfather died fighting for his country . Long live Algeria 🇩🇿
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