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Torture was a frequent process in use since the beginning of the colonization of Algeria, which started in 1830. Claude Bourdet had denounced these acts on December 6, 1951, in L'Observateur: "Is there a Gestapo in Algeria?" Torture had also been used -on both sides- during the First Indochina War (1946--54).
General Paul Aussaresses admitted in 2000 the use of systematic torture techniques during the war and justified it. He also recognized the assassination of lawyer Ali Boumendjel and head of FLN in Algiers, Larbi Ben M'Hidi, which had been disguised as "suicides".
Bigeard, who qualified FLN activists as "savages", claimed torture was a "necessary evil". To the contrary, General Jacques Massu denounced it, following Aussaresses' revelations, and before his death pronounced himself in favor of an official condemnation of the use of torture during the war.
Bigeard's justification of torture has been criticized by various persons, among whom Joseph Doré, archbishop of Strasbourg, and Marc Lienhard, president of the Lutherian Church of Augsbourg confession in Alsace-Lorraine.
In June 2000, Bigeard declared that he was based in Sidi Ferruch, known as a torture center and from where many Algerians never left alive. Bigeard qualified Louisette Ighilahriz's revelations, published in Le Monde on June 20, 2000, as "lies". An ALN activist, Louisette Ighilahriz had been tortured by General Massu. She herself called Bigeard a "liar", and criticized him for continuing to deny the use of torture 40 years later. However, since General Massu's revelations, Bigeard has now admitted the use of torture, although he denies having personally used it. He then declared: "You are striking the heart of an 84-year-old man." Bigeard also recognized that Larbi Ben M'Hidi had been assassinated, and his death disguised as a "suicide". Paul Teitgen, prefect of Algiers, also revealed that Bigeard's troop threw Algerians in the sea from helicopters (which resulted in brutalized corpses found in open waters nicknamed "crevettes Bigeard"), a tactic later theorized in Argentina by Admiral Luis Maria Mendia, as "death flights."
Films on the Algerian War * Le Petit Soldat by Jean-Luc Godard (1960 -- banned until 1963 because of the presence of scenes of torture) * Octobre à Paris by Jacques Panijel (1961) * Muriel by Alain Resnais (1962) * Lost Command aka Les Centurions (1966) * The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966) * Elise ou la vraie vie by Michel Drach (1970) * Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès by René Vautier (1972) * La Guerre d'Algérie, a documentary film by Yves Courriére (1972) * R.A.S. by Yves Boisset (1973) * Wild Reeds by André Téchiné (1994) * La Trahison by Philippe Faucon (2005, adapted from a novel by Claude Sales -- on the presence of Muslim soldiers in the French Army) * Nuit noire by Alain Tasma (2005, on the Paris massacre of 1961) * Harkis by Alain Tasma (2006) * Mon colonel by Laurent Herbier (2007) * L'Ennemi intime by Florent Emilio Siri (scenario by Patrick Rotman, 2007) * Cartouches Gauloises by Mehdi Charef (2007) * Indigènes (Eng: Days of Glory) V.O.S.T.
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CIA Archives: Charles de Gaulle and the Algerian War - Part 2 (1960)by thefilmarchive8,670 views
France was defeated in Algeria and exposed in history
Karimsalimo1 1 month ago
It was a no win situation for De Gaulle. France could not say in Algeria unless it was willing to keep Algerai and France in a desolate state of wars for years and years.
angeurbain 6 months ago
By December 1960, De Gaulle was well on the way to compete betrayal of those who had brought him to power in May 1958. For a year and a half after that, he had continued effectively to disguise his true intentions from them,whilst at the same time, shrewdly and single-mindedly, removing from Algeria many of the prime movers in the armed forces who had helped to bring him to power, including General Salan.
De Gaulle did not care about Algeria, except to get rid of it, at any price.
Scotseasy 9 months ago
you got the best videos.
IranContraScumDid911 1 year ago
#OMG
torture.
KhmerD0g 1 year ago