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Algerians remember killings under France
AFP, ALGIERS
Algeria on Saturday honored thousands killed by French forces in 1945, as the North African country waits for Paris to apologize for its colonial-era crimes.
Pro-independence protests broke out after a rally on May 8, 1945, marking the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
The rioting triggered two weeks of bloody repression in which French troops massacred thousands of mostly unarmed Muslim civilians, a key chapter in Algeria’s long independence struggle.
Algerians march during an anti-government demonstration in the capital, Algiers, on Friday, a day before the anniversary of pro-independence protests against French rule in 1945.
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