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Both France and Algeria have pushed narratives about the Harkis that are incorrect, the first being that these men joined the French army for ideological reasons ....
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The descendants of Algerian Muslims who fought for France during the eight-year war of independence are 60 years later struggling to overcome the “shame” of their families’ past. The National Liberation Front (FLN) had launched an armed struggle in the North African country in 1954, aiming to end more than a century of French colonial rule. French historians say that 500,000 civilians and combatants died 400,000 of them Algerian while the Algerian authorities said that 1.5 million were killed. Colonial authorities, seeking to boost troop numbers and weaken the FLN, used a mixture of blackmail, violence and financial incentives to persuade ....
The descendants of Algerian Muslims who fought for France during the eight-year war of independence are 60 years later struggling to overcome the “shame” of their families’ past. The National Liberation Front (FLN) had launched an armed struggle in the North African country in 1954, aiming to end more than a century of French colonial rule. French historians say that 500,000 civilians and combatants died 400,000 of them Algerian while the Algerian authorities said that 1.5 million were killed. Colonial authorities, seeking to boost troop numbers and weaken the FLN, used a mixture of blackmail, violence and financial incentives to persuade ....
Emmanuel Macron is the first French president to apologize to the "Harkis," Algerians employed by the French army during the Algerian War. After the war, the Harkis were largely left behind to suffer at the hands of vengeful nationalists. ....