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    Elements from the French Armed Forces used deliberate torture during the Algerian War (1954–1962), creating an ongoing public controversy. Pierre Vidal-Naquet...
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  • During the Israel–Hamas war, the systematic torture of Palestinians by Israel was reported by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International...
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    The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian...
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  • Army general, who fought during World War II, the First Indochina War and Algerian War. His actions during the Algerian War—and later defense of those...
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    The Battle of Algiers (also called the great repression of Algiers) was a campaign fought during the Algerian War. It consisted of urban guerrilla warfare...
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    Jacques Massu (category Torture during the Algerian War)
    general who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez Crisis. He led French troops in the Battle of Algiers, first supporting...
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    Djamila Boupacha (category Algerian War torture victims)
    unlawful torture during the Algerian War. Boupacha's violated virginity and her physical and metaphorical purity came under intense scrutiny in the court...
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  • La Question (category Torture during the Algerian War)
    describing the methods of torture used by French paratroopers during the Algerian War from the point of view of a victim. La Question was censored in France...
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    Villa Susini (category Torture during the Algerian War)
    The villa Sésini (often improperly spelt Susini) is a torture center established in El Biar during the Algerian war in the city of Algiers. The villa...
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    Waterboarding (category Torture during the Algerian War)
    His Torture Being Waterboarded by French Forces During Algerian War". Democracy Now! As one former CIA official, once a senior official for the directorate...
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    Philippe Erulin (category Torture during the Algerian War)
    a testimony denouncing torture during the Algerian war of independence (French: torture pendant la guerre d'Algérie). On the services which were applicable...
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    Maurice Audin (category Algerian War torture victims)
    at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who died under torture by the French...
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  • Killing of Saadia Mebarek (category Torture during the Algerian War)
    who died on May 25, 1960, was an Algerian woman arrested, tortured and killed by French soldiers during the Algerian War. She married to Mohamed Kader,...
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    Camp de Rivesaltes (category Torture during the Algerian War)
    serving as auxiliaries with the French Army during the Algerian War (1954–1962). In June 1962, the 1st regiment of Algerian riflemen was repatriated to...
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    Ferme Gauthier (category Torture during the Algerian War)
    The Ferme Gautier is a torture center established during the Algerian war in the commune of Souk El Had in Kabylia within Algeria. This farm was created...
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    Esprit (magazine) (category Non-conformists of the 1930s)
    involved itself in New Left movements. The review criticized the systemic use of torture during the Algerian War, publishing for examples articles by Pierre...
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  • TV. Positive depictions of torture during the Algerian War of Independence helped shape the public perception of torture, a trend that continued with...
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    history have been the Algerian War and Algerian Civil War. Evidence of the early human occupation of Algeria is demonstrated by the discovery of 1.8 million...
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  • writing and teaching at the university level. Opposed to torture during the Algerian War, he also held a meeting denouncing the 1961 Paris massacre. He...
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    10th Parachute Division (France) (category Torture during the Algerian War)
    primarily in the Suez Crisis and the Algerian War. It was dissolved immediately after the Algiers putsch of 1961. On July 1, 1956, the 10e D.P. was created...
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  • Abacination (category Physical torture techniques)
    up abacination in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Abacination is a form of corporal punishment or torture, in which the victim is blinded by infliction...
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    reached a peak during the anti-colonial wars in the twentieth century. An estimated 300,000 people were tortured during the Algerian War of Independence...
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    The Algerian Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية الجزائرية), known in Algeria as the Black Decade (Arabic: العشرية السوداء, French: La décennie noire), was...
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    Henri Alleg (category Algerian War torture victims)
    international recognition for his stance against torture, specifically within the context of the Algerian War (1954–1962). Alleg was born in London in 1921...
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    by the French during the Algerian War during the 1950s against Algerians include deliberate bombing and killing of unarmed civilians, rape, torture, executions...
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  • Paris massacre of 1961 (category Massacres in the Algerian War)
    occurred on 17 October 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62). Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon, the National Police attacked...
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    Algerian nationalism is pride in the Algerian identity and culture. It has been historically influenced by the conflicts between the Deylik of Algiers...
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    different functions during the Algerian War (1954–1962). The majority of Muslim women who became active participants did so on the side of the National Liberation...
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    Marcel Bigeard (category French military personnel of the Algerian War)
    overseen torture during the Algerian conflict; he denied the allegations of personal involvement, though defended the use of torture during the war as a necessary...
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    Personalism (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    Under Jean-Marie Domenach's direction, it criticized the use of torture during the Algerian War. Personalism was seen as an alternative to both liberalism...
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