What Is The Battle Of Algiers

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The “Battle of Algiers” film focuses first on the sufferings of the Algerians segregated in the Kasbah, their poverty and their frustration. It then shows their warfare tactic of bomb attacks on the heart of the city in all its horror, the blood, the randomness of their victims. Finally, the arrival of special French troopers under the operational control of Lieutenant-Colonel Mathieu (inspired by general Massu) provoked an escalation of violence, torture and hate that culminated in the battle of the Kasbah, where the FLN momentarily lost before later winning the war and making Algeria an independent country. French colonization of Algeria began as far back as 1830; and from the earliest starting point, Algeria was intended to be a state of settlement. Algeria was considered as a real piece of France. The 1838 Constitution, Chapter 10 Article 109 unequivocally communicated that Algeria was not to be considered as a state any longer. Algeria would have delegates in the French Assembly, and the French branches of Algeria (Oran, Alger, and Constantine) were made on September ninth of 1838. Thus Algeria was to be controlled as a piece of France. Mitterrand, priest of the inside amid the 1950's, summed up the French soul of the …show more content…

And for sure, to most French individuals, 'The Mediterranean ocean crosses France simply like La Seine crosses Paris'. This clarifies the multifaceted nature of the decolonization procedure of Algeria. In the 1950's contention in France made considerably more troublesome for the French to relinquish this

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