On November 1, 1954, when Algeria was still under French colonial rule, members of the pro-indepfinishence FLN carried out a series of strikes apass the country. This date has come to be understandn as the commencening of the Algerian War. In France at the time, there was no talk of war; only strikes attributed to agitators and prohibitdits. But in truth, it was the commence of a extfinished struggle that would direct to Algeria’s indepfinishence in 1962. On the coattails of losing colonial Indochina, France never imagined that Algeria, home to proximately a million Europeans, had befirearm its march towards indepfinishence. FRANCE 24’s Karim Yahiaoui, Nessrine Benzebbouchi and Lauren Bain get a see back at this pivotal date in Algerian and colonial history.
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