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	Peace - - Hippyland
		It is no accident that jurists and governments were multiplying their efforts to "humanize war" on the very eve of the two most frightful massacres that mankind has ever known.
		But since this blatant aggression kindled the hatred of the civilian population, and since civilians were potentially rebels and soldiers, the colonial troops maintained their authority by terror-by perpetual massacre.
		These massacres were genocidal in character: they aimed at the destruction of "a part of an ethnic, national, or religious group" in order to terrorize the remainder and to wrench apart the indigenous society.
	www.hippy.com /php/print.php?op=PrintStory&sid=90 (5632 words)

	Encyclopedia: Setif massacre
		The Setif massacre was an attack on Algerian protesters by colonial French soldiers on May 8, 1945, the same day that Germany surrendered in World War II.
		Additionally, the word massacre is often used for political or propaganda purposes, and the choice of whether to label an event a massacre may become a sensitive one; see, for example, the Kent State Massacre.
		Massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians civilian is a person who is not a member of a military.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Setif-massacre (919 words)

	setif algeria massacre and other algeria related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Massacre in Algeria As France celebrated victory in Europe on 8 May 1945, its army was massacring thousands of civilians in SÃ©tif and Guelma - events...
		France's ambassador to Algeria said in February that the Setif massacre was an "inexcusable tragedy".
		Setif (12,261), the Sitifis Colonia of the Romans, is 50 m.
	www.nethorde.com /algeria/setif-algeria-massacre.html (335 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Algeria is marking the 60th anniversary of the repression of pro-independence demonstrators under French colonial rule as Europeans celebrate the end of the second world war in Europe.
		"The paradox of the massacres of 8 May 1945, is that when the heroic Algerian combatants returned from the fronts in Europe, Africa and elsewhere where they defended France's honour and interests...
		France's ambassador to Algeria said in February that the Setif massacre was an "inexcusable tragedy".
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/C50D0EF1-4FCE-48C6-89A9-D059B34F7B0D.htm (602 words)

	May 1 - 15, 2005 Global News Monitor - Prevent Genocide International
		Massacre The FNL, a small group which draws its support from the country's Hutu majority, has remained active only in the province around the capital, Bujumbura.
		The last major burst of violence in Cairo was in 1997, when gunmen attacked a bus of German tourists, killing 11, several months before massacring tourists at a pharaonic temple in the southern city of Luxor in a shooting that left 64 dead, including the six gunmen.
		For some, the only memories of their homeland are of fleeing the 100-day slaughter in 1994, when up to 10,000 people a day were massacred by gangs wielding clubs and machetes.
	www.preventgenocide.org /news-monitor/2005may1.htm (19283 words)

	Embassy of France in the US -France/Africa
		The aide-mémoire on the partnership for growth and development, signed on 27 July last year by the Ministre d'Etat, Minister for the Economy and Finance, and his counterpart, set out the major areas of cooperation, in the infrastructure sphere in particular.
		He paid tribute to the memory of the victims "of that climate of fear, that spiral of demonstrations and crackdowns, assassinations and massacres", in May of that year.
		Let me tell you, on the subject of this initiative taken by French government authorities, of the huge importance we attach to the task of remembrance in our relations with Algeria, a country close to us and a friend.
	www.ambafrance-us.org /news/statmnts/2005/barnier_algeria050805.asp (1265 words)

	African History Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A familiar pattern emerged in Algeria: after any success by the French government/military, a massacre would be engineered by either the FLN or the OAS to polarize the population.
		Olanna's gentleness, compassion, and sense of self are tested as the war progressively claims those around her through chaos, massacre, and starvation.
		We are witness to her realization that: "If she had died, if Odenigbo and Baby and Ugwu had died, the bunker would still smell like a freshly tilled farm and the sun would still rise and the crickets would still hop around.
	www.e-book-store.com /Africana/African_History (8646 words)

	Mon journal de Chine : Un livre pour deux, suite
		Au rez-de-chaussée, prisonniers, assis par terre, les mains croisés sur nos têtes nous nous sommes regardés avec nos amis, et avons rien dit, mais pensions tous la même chose : si nous avions pu attrapé ce F.D.P. on l’aurait massacré, lui et celui qui a donné l’ordre.
		ca devient n importe quoi, en quoi P. Haski est responsable de Setif, qui a fait 15000 morts et non 45000 comme on veut bien le dire, mais c est deja 15000 de trop, et devrait a ce compte ouvrir un blog.
		Entre la guerre du Vietnam, les insultes "tu es un communiste/ tu n'es pas assez patriote", et cerise sur le gateau l'histoire du blog sur le massacre de Setif!
	chine.blogs.liberation.fr /pekin/2005/05/un_livre_pour_d.html (5203 words)

	1945 in History - Basic History Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		04-13 - German troops massacre more than 1000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
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		05-08 - Thousands of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Setif massacre.
	www.basichistoryonline.com /years.php?y=1945 (3145 words)

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