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- Algerian_War abstract "The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian War of Independence or the Algerian Revolution (Arabic: الثورة الجزائرية Ath-Thawra Al-Jazā’iriyya; French: Guerre d'Algérie, "Algerian War") was a war between France and the Algerian independence movements from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria gaining its independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism, the use of torture by both sides, and counter-terrorism operations. The conflict was also a civil war between loyalist Algerians believing in a French Algeria and their insurrectionist Algerian Muslim counterparts. Effectively started by members of the National Liberation Front (FLN) on November 1, 1954, during the Toussaint Rouge ("Red All Saints' Day"), the conflict shook the foundations of the French Fourth Republic (1946–58) and led to its eventual collapse. In 1961, president Charles de Gaulle decided to give up Algeria—which was up to then regarded as an integral part of France—after conducting a referendum showing huge support for Algerian independence. The planned withdrawal led to a state crisis, to various assassination attempts on de Gaulle, and some attempts of military coups. Most of the former were carried out by the Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS), an underground organization formed mainly from French military personnel supporting a French Algeria, which committed a large number of bombings and murders in both Algeria and the homeland to stop the planned independence.At the time when the independence came into force in 1962, 900 000 European-Algerians (Pieds-noirs) fled to France, in fear of the FLN's revenge, within a few months. The government was totally unprepared for the vast number of refugees who caused significant turmoil in France. The greatest part of the Algerians having worked for the French were deliberately left behind, though de Gaulle himself estimated a ″bloodbath″ among them once the French would be gone. In particular the Harkis, having fought as soldiers on the side of the French army, were regarded as traitors by the FLN. Between 50 000 and 150 000 Harkis and family members, disarmed by French officers before they left, were murdered by the FLN or lynch-mobs, often after being abducted and tortured. About 91,000 managed to flee to France, some with help from their French officers acting against orders, and today form a significant part of the Algerian-French population.The Algerian War has long been treated as a taboo by French authorities; only in 1999 the national assembly passed a law officially allowing to use the term guerre d'Algérie ("Algerian War") instead of a number of previous euphemistic paraphrases. Today, the conflict is widely regarded as a prototype of a modern asymmetrical war with regular military fighting informal insurgents recruited from the civilian population. The unconventional, often illegal and human rights violating counter-insurgency measures applied by the French military against the FLN, namely torture, forced disappearances and illegal executions, were widely regarded as militarily successful, but also to have significantly weakened the French position due to the ensuing moral and political controversy. Similar measures were later employed in a number of conflicts, especially during the 1970s and 1980s era of right-wing military dictatorships in Latin America battling and often killing any potential opposition in what became known under the Argentinian term Dirty War (Guerra Sucia). According to a number of sources, this happened with the official assistance of French military advisors and also exiled OAS-members. Early during the occupation of Iraq, the Directorate for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict of the Pentagon used the famous 1966 semi-documentary movie The Battle of Algiers as a show case for successfully defeating an insurgency and yet losing the "war of ideas".".
- Algerian_War causalties "241,000 dead".
- Algerian_War causalties "unknown number of wounded".
- Algerian_War combatant "(1960–61)".
- Algerian_War combatant "(1961–62)".
- Algerian_War combatant "FAF".
- Algerian_War combatant "FLN (ALN)".
- Algerian_War combatant "MNA".
- Algerian_War combatant "OAS".
- Algerian_War commander Ahmed_Ben_Bella.
- Algerian_War commander Ali_La_Pointe.
- Algerian_War commander Edmond_Jouhaud.
- Algerian_War commander Ferhat_Abbas.
- Algerian_War commander Fernand_Gambiez.
- Algerian_War commander Frantz_Fanon.
- Algerian_War commander Hocine_A%C3%AFt_Ahmed.
- Algerian_War commander Houari_Boumediene.
- Algerian_War commander Jacques_Massu.
- Algerian_War commander Jean-Jacques_Susini.
- Algerian_War commander Krim_Belkacem.
- Algerian_War commander Larbi_Ben_M'hidi.
- Algerian_War commander Maurice_Challe.
- Algerian_War commander Mohamed_Boudiaf.
- Algerian_War commander Mustapha_Benboula%C3%AFd.
- Algerian_War commander Paul_Aussaresses.
- Algerian_War commander Pierre_Lagaillarde.
- Algerian_War commander Rabah_Bitat.
- Algerian_War commander Raoul_Salan.
- Algerian_War commander Saadi_Yacef.
- Algerian_War commander Said_Boualam.
- Algerian_War date "1954-11-01".
- Algerian_War notes "350,000 total Algerian war dead".
- Algerian_War place French_Algeria.
- Algerian_War result "* Algerian independence".
- Algerian_War result "* Exodus of the Pieds-Noirs".
- Algerian_War result "FLN political victory".
- Algerian_War result "French military victory".
- Algerian_War result "Évian Accords".
- Algerian_War strength "3,000 (OAS)".
- Algerian_War strength "300,000 identified 40,000 civilian support".
- Algerian_War strength "470,000 (maximum reached and maintained from 1956-1962)".
- Algerian_War strength "plus 90,000 Harkis".
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- Algerian_War casualties "2000".
- Algerian_War casualties "241000".
- Algerian_War casualties "28600".
- Algerian_War casualties "65000".
- Algerian_War casualties "unknown number of wounded".
- Algerian_War casus "--11-01".
- Algerian_War combatant "FAF".
- Algerian_War combatant "FLN".
- Algerian_War combatant "MNA".
- Algerian_War combatant "OAS".
- Algerian_War commander Ahmed_Ben_Bella.
- Algerian_War commander Ferhat_Abbas.
- Algerian_War commander Frantz_Fanon.
- Algerian_War commander Hocine_Aït_Ahmed.
- Algerian_War commander Houari_Boumediene.
- Algerian_War commander Krim_Belkacem.
- Algerian_War commander Mohamed_Boudiaf.
- Algerian_War commander Rabah_Bitat.
- Algerian_War commander Saadi_Yacef.
- Algerian_War commander "Ali La Pointe".
- Algerian_War commander "Edmond Jouhaud".
- Algerian_War commander "Fernand Gambiez".
- Algerian_War commander "Henri Lorillot".
- Algerian_War commander "Jacques Massu".
- Algerian_War commander "Jean Crepin".
- Algerian_War commander "Jean-Jacques Susini".
- Algerian_War commander "Larbi Ben M'Hidi".
- Algerian_War commander "Maurice Challe".
- Algerian_War commander "Mustapha Benboulaïd".
- Algerian_War commander "Paul Aussaresses".
- Algerian_War commander "Paul Cherrière".
- Algerian_War commander "Pierre Lagaillarde".
- Algerian_War commander "Raoul Salan".
- Algerian_War commander "Said Boualam".
- Algerian_War conflict "Algerian War".
- Algerian_War conflict "الثورة الجزائرية".
- Algerian_War date "--11-01".
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