Algerian Embassy marks massacres of May 1945: It will remain a living landmark reminiscent of the sacrifices of the martyrs for the sake of liberating the homeland

Algerian Embassy marks massacres of May 1945: It will remain a living landmark reminiscent of the sacrifices of the martyrs for the sake of liberating the homeland

NNA - The Algerian embassy said in a statement this morning, on the occasion of the anniversary of the massacre of May 8, 1945, that “the roots of these events go back to the end of World War II, when colonial France promised the Algerians to grant them independence if they participated with it in the war against the Nazi German forces."

"With the end of the Second World War with the victory of the Alliances ... they called on France to fulfill its promises to grant the Algerians their freedom ... However, the authorities of the French occupation met this with the most horrific methods of repression, arrests and mass killings that included men, women, the elderly and children, and the destruction of entire villages and communities, especially in the city of Setif, Guelma and Kharata. As a result of these heinous massacres, more than