Algeria passed a bill to commemorate May 8 as a “National Day of Memory” - the day marks the start of a French campaign that killed 45,000 Algerians in 1945
that establishes May 8, 1945 as a “National Day of Memory”.The article states that “the victims of the massacres perpetuated by French colonialism on 8 May 1945 are called martyrs.” The other article provides for “the criminalization of acts committed by French colonialism on 8 May 1945 against the Algerian people.
As Europe was celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany, France was brutally crushing peaceful anti-occupation protests in Algeria, slaughtering thousands in the regions ofThe repression of these demonstrations opened up a phase of unprecedented brutality not seen since the French invasion of Algeria in 1830.
It was part of a deadly terror strategy systematically deployed throughout the region. Mass graves overflowing with anonymous bodies were common. The violence continued until May 22. By the end of it, around 45,000 Algerian men, women and children were killed. As Nazism fell in Europe and the horrors of the Holocaust were being revealed, Boucif Mekhaled recounts in his book Chronicles of a Massacre, how Algerians were being “The French Republic wanted to ruthlessly strike a blow to any development of Algerian nationalist sentiment. But it’s violent tactics had the opposite effect: the massacres of Setif, Guela, and Kherrata were the tragic prologue to the Algerian War, which tipped the whole population into the struggle for independence in 1954.
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