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Sailer, 2004: French Lesson—Refighting The Battle Of Algiers | Blog Posts

From my review of the 1965 movie The Battle of A...

French Occupation Army: Kidnaping and Liquidation of Algerians

Crimes et refoulement. La mémoire sélective de la société israélienne

« Avec le temps va, tout s’en va », « tout s’évanouit », chantait Léo Ferré. Cependant avec le temps parfois, tout revient aussi. On assiste en Israël à une succession de révélations concernant un passé peu glorieux. Ces révélations, pour la plupart, sont répercutées par le quotidien Haaretz, le « journal de référence » devenu de plus en plus critique tant de la politique des gouvernants à l’égard des Palestiniens que de leur politique passée. La mise au jour de faits de l’historiographie officielle tronqués par les (...)

Maurice Papon and the October 1961 massacre of Paris

In April 1998, Maurice Papon, then aged 88 years old, was sentenced to prison by a French court for having organised, the deportation of 1,690 Jews from France during the wartime Vichy regime, while he was the general secretary of the police prefecture in the Gironde.

The Battle of Algiers - LewRockwell

I have been reading Alaister Horne’s history of the Algerian War, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962. He mentioned the film The Battle of Algiers (follow this link to view the film), the first time I had become aware of it. Here is the Wikipedia (links from them) introduction to the film; it “is a 1966 Italian–Algerian historical war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and starring Jean Martin and Saadi Yacef. It is based on events undertaken by rebels during the Algerian War (1954–1962) against the French government in North Africa, the most prominent being the titular … Continue reading →

Saadi Yacef, revolutionary whose memoir was adapted into the brilliant film The Battle of Algiers – obituary

He admitted committing atrocities in the struggle for independence, but insisted that ‘this was our only means against a cruel enemy’

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President Macron admits French assassination of Ali Boumendjel in the Algerian war

President Macron admits French assassination of Ali Boumendjel in the Algerian war Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged “in the name of France” that Ali Boumendjel, a lawyer and activist for the National Liberation Front (Front de Libération National—FLN), was “tortured and murdered” by French General Jacques Massu’s paratroopers in 1957, during the Algerian war. His execution was made to look like a suicide. Portrait of Ali Boumendjel [Source: Wikimedia Commons] Macron’s statement was published on March 2 by the Elysée Palace. The same day, Macron met with Boumendjel’s grandchildren. During the Battle for Algiers, Boumendjel “was arrested by the French army, placed in solitary confinement, tortured and then executed on March 23, 1957,” the statement read.