Algerian war (1954-62)

[Charon[VW:BB]]

Hi everyone!

I watched some days ago a movie on french television (hehe i didn't understand much (the pictures spoke for themselves)) about the algerian war in the early 60's. Anyone out there who is working on this topic for ofp? Or maybe someone could be interested in this topic?

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Quote[/b] ]The Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) was a period of guerrilla strikes, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians on both sides, and riots between the French army and colonists in Algeria and the FLN and other pro-independence Algerians. Although the French government of the time considered all Algerian violence, including violence against the French military, to be crimes or terrorism, some French people, such as former anti-Nazi guerrilla and lawyer Jacques Verges have compared French resistance to Nazi German occupation to Algerian resistance to French occupation.

The struggle was touched off by the Front de Libération Nationale (or FLN), an organization of Algerian nationalists in Algeria and in exile. The FLN started its struggle in 1954, only two years before France was forced to give up its control over Tunisia and Morocco.

The FLN's main Algerian rival — with the same goal of Algerian independence — was the later National Algerian Movement (Mouvement National Algérien, MNA) whose main supporters were Algerian workers in France. The FLN and MNA fought against each other in France, and sometimes in Algeria, for nearly the full duration of the conflict.

[Hellfish6]

We'd be interested at bushfires, but we've got two big projects we're working on now. It would be a while before we could do anything for this.

[remo]

There is a project for "les evenements d'Algerie" look at the french OFrP forum : pic, and new (and even an english language forum)