293-04 Research Paper April 7‚ 2003 "Thus‚ what motivates men to slay the enemy is anger‚" Sun Tzu says in The Art of War. The conflict between Algerian Islamic fundamentalists and the Algerian military backed government is rooted in anger. The conflict‚ which began as skirmishes between government forces and Islamic fundamentalists‚ has taken on the proportions of a civil war as fundamentalists carried out kidnappings‚ assassinations and other forms of civil disturbance. The government has tried
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Analyze the torture tactics the French used during the Algerian war 1 Table of Contents A.Plan of Investigation…………………………………………………..3 B.Summary of Evidence…………………………………………………47 C.Evaluation of Sources……………………………………………….... D.Analysis …………………………………………………………….... E.Conclusion……………………………………………………………. F.Bibliography………………………………………………………….. G.Appendix……………………………………………………………...
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Algerian Independence War 1954 Carlo Cavaliere Causes of War November 23rd 2012 Colonization of countries by the world leaders proved to be a successful and profitable action that completely abolished human rights of countries that were colonized but lined the pockets of the elite colonizers. Numerous countries were plundered and forced in to being ruled by superior and more powerful elite nations. However‚ after hundreds of years nations and peoples‚ who had been colonized‚ began to
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insurgents to emerge the victors of the Algerian War of 1954-1962. To understand why this occurred‚ it is imperative to examine how French military arrogance‚ political arrogance‚ and a failure to use military and political capabilities in combination doomed the French to defeat at the hands of the Algerians. Before beginning an in-depth examination of French failures‚ it is necessary to provide background information regarding the years preceding the Algerian War. France began its occupation of Algeria
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life to be won and secured Of those for the members of a particular community or society or state? people of African ancestry who have done systematic thinking about the ends and purposes of government in Africa in the period since the end of World War II‚ there are few who measure up to the stature and originality of Frantz Fanon. (For biographical sketches on Fanon‚ see Caute 1970; Geismar 1969‚ 1970; CUsaire et al. 1962; de Beauvoir 1965‚ Ch. 5‚ espe- cially
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Peace talks were initially possible by both parties. In 1956‚ the “Algerian Question” was to be debated at the UN‚ and Guy Mollet‚ Prime Minister of France‚ attempted peace talks in early September of 1956. These peace talks ultimately broke down because the FLN and French army sought to act as violently as possible in order to prevent peaceful negotiations from taking place. For instance‚ during the Battle of Philippeville on August 20‚ 1959‚ the FLN sent groups of commandos to the European quarter
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National Liberation Front‚ or FLN‚ as the Muslim terrorist attackers‚ and also led to the French victory overall. However‚ Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 Italian-Algerian film “The Battle of Algiers” provide collective perspectives that do not just provide both the French military and Algerians’ sides of the battle‚ but also a closer look at the Algerians’ sides that deviate from the stereotypical and conventional image. It is one of the films in the Third Cinema‚ and Fernando Solano and Octavio Getino of
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1965 and banned by the French‚ Gillo Pontecorvo ’s historical film masterpiece has been called "One of the most remarkable films of all time". (IMDB) Commissioned by the Algerian government‚ Pontecorvo ’s film brings us into the middle of the 1954 to 1962 Franco-Algerian conflict and the struggle that faced both the Algerians and the French colonials who had occupied the nation since the 1830s. In the 1960s the French Foreign Legion had pulled out of Vietnam in defeat. This defeat would not happen
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with the obstacles faced by women‚ and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is more interested in her novels and writings in revealing the lives of Algerian women within patriarchal oppression and their historically invisible experiences. Djebar is known largely for her feminist and postcolonial views on dealing with women’s issues in the Algerian society. These views are seen as the foundation for all of her novels. As she writes using the French language‚ Djebar was hugely criticized for that
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with the Algerian independence from France and their modern guerrilla warfare that aided tremendously in their liberation in 1962. The content of the film however goes beyond politics and makes you question the validity of terrorism as a means for freedom. The majority of the film is in shot as a flashback from the perspective of Ali‚ one of the main leaders of the Algerian National Liberation Front. The question that many are asking is whether or not the film portrayed both sides of the war fairly
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