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The Sétif and Guelma massacre [a] (also called the Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata massacres [b] or the massacres of 8 May 1945 [c]) was a series of attacks by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians in 1945 around the market town of Sétif, west of Constantine, in French Algeria.
- 8 May – 26 June 1945
- Algerians
- 6,000 to 30,000
Mar 26, 2008 · The estimates of the allied countries and Marcel Reggui suggest a figure of 5,000 to 6,000 people killed in the area of Sétif-Kherrata-Bougie, and 1,500 to 2,000 in the area of Guelma, to which one must add the thousands of injured people, some of whom may well have died of their wounds.
May 8, 2017 · President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika has called the Setif massacre the beginning of a “genocide” perpetrated during the Algerian War by French occupation forces. France has denounced...
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May 8, 2015 · 8th May 1945: Remembering Algeria’s Setif massacre. By. 5Pillars (RMS) - 8th May 2015. Seventy years on from the Setif massacre, journalist Hafsa Kara-Mustapha recalls the events which ultimately led to the end of “French Algeria.”
May 9, 2005 · May 9, 2005 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. ALGIERS, May 8 -- President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has called on France to admit its part in the massacres of 45,000 Algerians who took to the streets demanding...
May 8, 2020 · On May 8, 1945, the French territory of Algeria, a colony incorporated into greater France since 1830, was the scene of one of the great massacres of protesters against colonial rule in European colonial history. The native Algerian, almost exclusively Muslim, population of Algeria had long chafed under French colonial rule, and although most ...
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The Sétif and Guelma massacre (also called the Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata massacres or the massacres of 8 May 1945) was a series of attacks by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians in 1945 around the market town of Sétif, west of Constantine, in French Algeria.
