On November 1, 1954, when Algeria was nonetheless below French colonial rule, members of the pro-independence FLN carried out a collection of assaults throughout the nation. This date has come to be generally known as the start of the Algerian Conflict. In France on the time, there was no speak of struggle; solely assaults attributed to agitators and bandits. However in actuality, it was the beginning of an extended battle that might result in Algeria’s independence in 1962. On the coattails of shedding colonial Indochina, France by no means imagined that Algeria, dwelling to almost 1,000,000 Europeans, had begun its march in direction of independence. FRANCE 24’s Karim Yahiaoui, Nessrine Benzebbouchi and Lauren Bain have a look again at this pivotal date in Algerian and colonial historical past.
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