WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -For over a century, the French settlers of Algeria were regarded as benefiting from France’s colonising presence. But when Algeria achieved independence in 1962, almost a million dispossessed people were forced across the Mediterranean in just a few months.

Detailed explanation-2: -The catalyst for the revolt was the mutiny of a Spahi – a member of the Algerian cavalry under French rule – in 1871, after his refusal to be deported to France to fight in the Franco-Prussian War. Mokrani also wanted to assert autonomy from the French and decided to gather a war council in order to achieve this.

Detailed explanation-3: -France occupied Algeria for 132 years, so that by Independence, there were more than one million people of French descent in the country. After Algeria claimed its independence, these French citizens, who called themselves “Pieds-Noirs” (black feet), were forced to repatriate to France, a country many had never seen.

Detailed explanation-4: -The colonialist French authorities have committed abuses and torture against Algerian civilians, according to Algerian historians and victims. Electric shocks and the use of water wells as prisons were among the methods used by the colonialist authorities against prisoners in Algeria.