Monday, 18 February 2013

Photo Archives of the Algerian Revolution

Photo Archives of the Algerian Revolution (1954-1962), A Revolution that Algerians fought for the Independence of Algeria against the French Colonization it lasted for 7 years and the price was 1.5 million Martyrs. 

French Paratroops supported by Helicopters



































French Armoured Vehicle entering into a village



















French Warship Shelling coastal towns (8 May 1945)
















Search Operations by the French Paratroops 




















French Military Parade in Algeria





















Operation Chien is a french military operation was operated to search for Algerian Revolutionists (Mujaheddin)



















































French Paratroops in the Casbah during Battle of Algiers 

























French Propaganda against the Algerian Revolution  

























Destroyed French Jeep



















French Plane Fighter shout down by the Algerian Revolutionists (Mujaheddin) In the Aures 



















French Soldiers taking their dead bodies to the graveyard in Batna 1954





















Setif Massacre (8 May 1945) which claimed lives of more the 45,000 Algerians who were making a peaceful demonstration in Setif.
















The French Soldiers did not just killed Algerian people they also looted and burned down their properties (House and Shops)























After the massacre of Setif the French arrested the remaining Algerian residents in Setif and took them to Detention camps.






















































French Newspaper Le Monde 2/11/1954
Calling the Algerian Revolution as  "Terrorist Movement in North Africa"




















French Newspaper Combat 2/11/1954
"Waves of Military operations in Algeria"


















French Newspaper Le Figaro 2/11/1954
"Waves of Terrorists attacks in Algeria"




















French Newspaper La Croix 2/11/1954
"Risings of Terrorists in North Africa"



















Algerians in the French detention camps of the french in the south of Algeria


















French Troops Arresting Algerians 

























































French Soldiers torturing Algerian people 


























Photos of  the Algerian Revolutionist (Mujaheddin)















































Algerian Revolutionist (Mujaheddin) healing one of their wounded

  















Algerian Revolutionist's (Mujaheddin) Memorial Photos taking during the war





















Algerian Revolutionists (Mujaheddin) praying to god 


























Massacres in Oran 1956

















Massacres in Constantine 1960

























Massacre in Aures Villages























Here is a Skull of an Algerian that has been placed at the front of the French Military Jeep



















French Soldiers Killing Algerians in Action






















French Military Checkpoints in Algiers 1957





















French soldiers arresting Algerian people in Casbah 1960




















French Police Arresting Algerian protesters in Paris 17/10/1961


























French Soldier checking an Algerian farmer 






















Algerian refuges in Tunisia



















French Soldiers arresting an Algerian Revolutionist


















French Soldiers Arresting Algerian Revolutionist Leader Larbi Ben M'hidi in Algiers 1957
























The week of barricades in Algiers (January 1960)

Riots caused by the European settlers in Algiers for supporting French  General Massu and refusing the Independence of Algeria 





















OAS (Organisation armée secrète)  "Organization of the Secret Army" is a French terrorist organization was crated in 1961 in order to keep Algeria as a French Territory.
there motto is "Algeria is French and will remain so"












OAS Bombing Algerian Public Buildings and Streets











































Exodus of the Pieds Noirs (European Settlers in Algeria) in 1962
























Referendum on the Independence of Algeria held in April 1962, the result was 91% for Independence of Algeria and 9% was against the Independence.



















Algerian People celebrating the Independence of Algeria after 132 years of French Colonization of Algeria








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