
Aurès region, Algeria, November 1, 1954. Brahim, a bus driver, witnesses the assassination of two passengers. This attack, signed by the FLN, was one of dozens that day throughout the country and marked the beginning of the war of liberation. However, colonial France, settled in Algeria since 1830, continues to turn a deaf ear to these warnings.
Aurès region, Algeria, November 1, 1954. Brahim, a bus driver, witnesses the assassination of two passengers. This attack, signed by the FLN, was one of dozens that day throughout the country and marked the beginning of the war of liberation. However, colonial France, settled in Algeria since 1830, continues to turn a deaf ear to these warnings.
Summary executions, torture, raids, displacement of populations. In the name of so-called pacification, France violently represses the revolt in Algeria, strengthening the struggle for independence even more.