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Algeria remembers mass killings under French rule Saturday May 08 2021 This file photo taken on January 21, 2021, shows a view of the Maqam Echahid, a concrete monument commemorating the Algerian war for independence, in Algiers. Algeria on May 8 honours thousands killed by French forces in 1945, as the North African country waits for Paris to apologise for its colonial-era crimes. PHOTO/AFP Summary Pro-independence rioting following a demonstration in the final months of World War II prompted the massacre of thousands of mostly unarmed Muslim civilians, a turning point in Algeria s long independence struggle. Advertisement Algeria on Saturday honours thousands killed by French forces in 1945, as the North African country waits for Paris to apologise for its colonial-era crimes. ....
Algeria celebrates National Day of Memory for the first time May 8, 2021 at 3:16 pm | Published in: Africa, Algeria, Europe & Russia, France, News Protestors hold an Algerian flag during a demonstration, in Bordeaux, southwestern France on December 12, 2020 [THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP via Getty Images] May 8, 2021 at 3:16 pm For the first time on Saturday, Algeria will celebrate the National Day of Memory, which coincides with the 76th anniversary of the massacres of 8 May, 1945, when the French colonial forces suppressed a demonstration calling for the independence of Algeria, killing thousands of protesters east of the country. Official ceremonies are scheduled to take place under the slogan Memory will not Forget in the city of Setif, which witnessed the colonial suppression of demonstrations demanding Algeria s independence on the occasion of the allies celebration of victory over Nazism in World War II. ....
France-Algeria relations: The lingering fallout from nuclear tests in the Sahara Published image copyrightGetty Images image captionThe French used dummies at the nuclear test site near Reggane seen in this picture from December 1960 The continued fallout from the nuclear tests carried out by France in the desert of its former colony, Algeria, continues to pollute relations between the two countries more than 60 years later, as Maher Mezahi reports from Algiers. On the morning of 13 February 1960, just 45 minutes after the French army detonated an atomic bomb as a test in the Algerian Sahara, President Charles de Gaulle sent a message to his army minister. ....