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Sétif and Guelma
8 May 1945 — As Europe celebrates victory, French forces answer a nationalist march with weeks of reprisals across eastern Algeria — thousands of Algerians dead by any count. Many date the war of 1954 to this day. Remember them.
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — How Thin the Empire Really Was in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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