Elements from the French Armed Forces used deliberate torture during the Algerian War, creating an ongoing public controversy. Pierre Vidal-Naquet, a renowned French historian, estimated that there we
An Algerian is submerged in water and tortured by the French army using electricity, while two tires serve as containers (1961).
"Gégène", a device used by the French forces to generate electricity; electrodes would then be attached to the victim's body parts for electric torture
Henri Alleg
People fasting against torture in Paris, 1957 (Lanza del Vasto and Louis Massignon among others)
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The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution, the Franco-Algerian War, or the Algerian War of Independence, was an armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front f
Torture during the Algerian War
…Elements from the French Armed Forces used deliberate torture during the Algerian War (1954–1962), creating an ongoing public controversy. Pierre Vidal-Naquet, a renowned French historian, estimated that there were "hundreds of thousands…
National Liberation Army soldiers, 1958
The Battle of Somah in 1836
The arrival of Marshal Randon in Algiers in 1857
Algerian rebel fighters in the mountains