The French invaded Algeria in 1830 until 1962. ***General Massu, Aussaresses, and then Colonel Bigeard were the military commanders during the 1957 Battle of Algiers. The following year, General Aussaresses confessed in his book "Services spéciaux, Algérie 1955-1957" (2001) to having engaged in torture and illegal executions, on direct orders from General Massu. Aussaresses declared that torture had been directly ordered by Guy Mollet's government***
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The Algerian war 1954-62 In 1954, Algeria's smouldering independence struggle erupted into a war. Just before, the French army had been forced to withdraw from Vietnam following its historical defeat at Dien Bien Phu. France moved the largest part of the Foreign Legion to Algeria, its largest and oldest colony. As the attacks mounted by the FLN increased during 1954, the French government decided it would not abandon Algeria, which had been a French colony since 1830. For the first time conscripts were despatched to a colony, and by mid 1956 half a million French soldiers were stationed on Algerian soil. By 1962, 1.7 million French soldiers had fought in the Algerian war. Over 25000 of these were killed and 60000 wounded, while on the Algerian side, over half a million died. Despite these enormous numbers, for a long time no one was officially allowed to use the word "war". One spoke only of the "events in Algeria" or of "preserving order" in the three Algerian provinces. Only in October 1999 did the French National Assembly (parliament) decided to officially permit the term "Algerian War".
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Desperate France throws its full military might into the Algerian war. France deployed 400.000 soldiers of its best troops and built up its military establishment to peak strength. Events recorded by Western media on 21 May 1956. ------------------------------------ For the truth to be known. For the truth to triumph.
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French President Charles De Gaulle and the Six-Year War. Part 1 covers the era from the November 1, 1954 (Toussaint Rouge) to the Algiers coup d'Etat of May 13, 1958 (putsch d'Alger de 1958). US documentary, about the Algerian war, written by Maurice Schonfeld in 1960, hence the era of 1960 to 1962 which saw a rebel faction of the French army with French settlers (OAS) fighting the French Army is not included.
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Camus & The Algerian War of Independence. This documentary is about Camus' struggle on the question of Islamic Independence in Algeria and the Pied Noir or French inhabitants. From 1955 to 1956, Camus wrote for L'Express. In 1957 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times", not for his novel The Fall, published the previous year, but for his writings against capital punishment in the essay "Réflexions sur la Guillotine" (Reflections on the Guillotine). When he spoke to students at the University of Stockholm, he defended his apparent inactivity in the Algerian question; he stated that he was worried about what might happen to his mother, who still lived in Algeria. This led to further ostracism by French left-wing intellectuals.
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French President Charles De Gaulle and the Six-Year War. covers the era from the November 1, 1954 (Toussaint Rouge) to the Algiers coup d'Etat of May 13, 1958 (putsch d'Alger de 1958). US documentary, about the Algerian war, written by Maurice Schonfeld in 1960, hence the era of 1960 to 1962 which saw a rebel faction of the French army with French settlers (OAS) fighting the French Army is not included.Algerian War of Independence from the French - 1954-1962 24 minutes documentary about the Algerian war. Great vintage footage and interviews of veteran French men who were drafted, of Harkis (Algerians fighting for the French) and European settlers who had to leave Algeria after it became independent again in 1962. Many Algerians in turn immigrated to France and all who were involved one way or another in the fight bear the scars of the conflict even to this day. Until 1999 this war was unacknowledged by the French government. It was only after Jacques Chirac recognized it officially that the oppressive silence was lifted and people concerned started to talk about it. What strikes me the most is to see old men weep? Men are supposed not to let their emotions out but how good is it for a society when mental agony remains a taboo subject? How good can such a man be to his wife and children? To society at large? What values will he transmit to the generation that is following him if essential issues of human rights expressed through war and foreign policy cannot be addressed ...
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Mostefa Ben Boulaid ( 1917 - 1956 ) (Arabic مصطفى بن بولعيد ), also known as Mustapha Ben Boulaid , was a commander of Zone 1 in the Aures , a militant Algerian nationalist and one of the historic leaders of the National Liberation Front ( FLN) during the war in Algeria , known as the "Father of the Algerian Revolution"
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New evidence that the Algerian government may be manipulating the country's horrific cycle of violence. Algeria's bloody civil war has claimed 75000 lives since the government cancelled the elections won by the Islamic fundamentalist party, the FIS, in 1992. Now a former Algerian diplomat Mohammed Larbi Zitout has defected, accusing the government of wanting to perpetuate the war, in order to maintain power and control of the country's vast oil and gas riches. Women weep at a graveside, mourning a recent night-time massacre of men, women and children. The government calls it a war between good and evil, blaming Islamic extremists for the massacres. The stories of lonely widows echo each other in every detail - nobody understands why the Islamists are killing civilians. Human Rights Advocate Selima Ghezal says Europe could do a lot. more. Moutefa Bouchachia, another Human Rights Lawyer says he believes the GIA, the radical armed Islamic group, has been infiltrated to ensure conflict continues.
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last part of the doc. Lagaillarde, Salan, Soustelle, a rebel faction of the French army and French settlers created the OAS secret army. Civil war ensued between the OAS, French Army and FLN until the Bloody Monday of March 26, 1962. Most of the French settlers started to depart Algeria to mainland France and many OAS leaders were caught. A second vote, this time in Algeria, was set and Algeria was granted independance. OAS lost soldiers tried to assassinate de Gaulle in mainland France.
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This was the day that Belgians voted to allow their exiled king to return and the Algerian War of Independence came to an end.
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French President Charles De Gaulle and the Six-Year War. Part 2 covers the era from the establishment of the Public Safety Committee on May 14, 1958 (Comité de Salut Public) to the Barricades Week uprising of January 20, 1960 (Semaine des Barricades). US documentary, about the Algerian war, written by Maurice Schonfeld in 1960, hence the era of 1960 to 1962 which saw a rebel faction of the French army with French settlers (OAS) fighting the French Army is not included.
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1) Armed Forces Day at AFB in Michigan features new Redstone missile; Scorpion attack plane fires rockets at old B-17 in Florida; crash landing of jet on USS Essex, pilot rescued by helicopter 2) "France Digs In for Total Algerian War" - 400000 French troops pinned down by guerilla attacks - armed depots dot Algeria landscape 3) 4 survivng Dionne quints open flower shop in Ottawa 4) hospital workers carry small pagers 5) Preakness horse race won by Fabius, not Needles who had won Kentucky Derby; Nashua wins his race (complete newsreel)
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Excerpted short film from the full length documentary "Remembering History" found on the Criterion Collection release of "The Battle of Algiers." Features Saadi Yacef and other historians on the history of the French-Algerian War
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***General Massu, Aussaresses, and then Colonel Bigeard were the military commanders during the 1957 Battle of Algiers. The following year, General Aussaresses confessed in his book "Services spéciaux, Algérie 1955-1957" (2001) to having engaged in torture and illegal executions, on direct orders from General Massu. Aussaresses declared that torture had been directly ordered by Guy Mollet's government***
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Al Jazeera examines the bitterness still provoked by France's colonial war in Algeria and how it fuels resentment between France and its Muslim community.
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50 years since the battle of Algiers began, More4 News (C4, UK), speaks to one of the commanders of the Autonomous Zone (Algiers, Algeria) as the film "The Battle of Algiers" is to be re-released this week. The parallels between the Algerian war of independence (1954-62) and the ongoing war in Iraq have once more been drawn as the US Administration seeks a way out of the quagmire in Iraq. Officials at the FBI, the CIA and the Pentagon have screened the Algerian experience and approached Yacef Saadi, the commander, for ideas only to be told: "the day you put your feet in Iraq is the day you will lose the war".
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The Battle of Algiers depicts an episode of the war, occurred in Algiers,between 1954 and 1960, during the Algerian War of Independence. the film was shot with an 8mm camera and Directed by Gillo Pontevorco.
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WAR WITHOUT IMAGES is the return of photographer Michael von Graffenried to Algeria, a country which, between 1991 and 2000, he visited incognito, taking pictures of people with a hidden camera. During that time before 9/11, Algeria was shaken by a civil war between the government and islamic extremists in which about 200000 people lost their lives. In a land where Islamic terrorists executed more than sixty journalists and photographers in 1993 and 94. The result is a film that holds a mirror to contemporary Algeria: a crossed, contradictory, complex place where laughter and tears intermingle. It is a country that wants both to live and to forget its tragedy and which is still looking for its identity, somewhere between East and West. A film by Mohammed Soudani and Michael von Graffenried Amka Films Productions, vo english subtitles
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SOURCE AND CREDITS: democracynow.org Amy Goodman of Democracy Now discusses the 'Algerian chapter' of "The Great War for Civilisation" with Robert Fisk, the author, where many issues are debated the civil unrest in France, its colonial past in Algeria, the screening by the Pentagon of The Battle of Algiers and the ongoing war in Iraq. Good stuff...well.. not bad......
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