Sétif and Guelma massacre
1945 killing of Algerian civilians by French colonial forces and settler militias / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sétif and Guelma massacre[lower-alpha 1] (also called the Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata massacres[lower-alpha 2] or the massacres of 8 May 1945[lower-alpha 3]) 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. In response to French police firing on demonstrators at a protest on 8 May 1945,[3] riots in the town were followed by attacks on French settlers (colons) in the surrounding countryside, resulting in 102 deaths. The French colonial authorities and European settlers retaliated by killing between 6,000 and 45,000 Muslims in the region. Both the outbreak and the indiscriminate nature of its retaliation marked a turning point in Franco-Algerian relations, leading to the Algerian War of 1954–1962.[4]
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Location | French Algeria |
Coordinates | 28°N 02°E |
Date | 8 May – 26 June 1945 |
Attack type | Massacre, communal violence |
Deaths | 6,000 to 45,000[1][2] |
Victims | Algerian Muslims |
Perpetrators | French authorities and pied-noir militias
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Motive | Repression of demonstrations that demand Algerian independence; killing of 102 French settlers by rioters |