Death flights
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Death flights are a form of extrajudicial killing in which victims are dropped to their deaths from airplanes or helicopters and their bodies land in oceans, large rivers or mountains. Death flights h
Short Skyvan 'PA-51', one of the original aircraft used for "death flights", now on display at Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA
Death flights victims during the Algerian War were known as crevettes Bigeard ("Bigeard's shrimp"), after French General Marcel Bigeard (pictured)
Algerian War
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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
Death flights
…1948–1958), the Colombian military had dissenters thrown from airplanes above areas under the control of guerrillas. Death flights were used during the Algerian War by French paratroopers of the 10th Parachute Division under Jacques Massu during the Battle of Algiers (1957). After it was discovered that corpses…
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