Algeria remembers mass killings under French rule ...Kuwait

Thousands of Algerians were killed during the Setif massacre.Algeria on Saturday honours thousands killed by French forces in 1945, as the North African country waits for Paris to apologise for its colonial-era crimes. Pro-independence rioting following a demonstration in the final months of World War II prompted the massacre of thousands of mostly unarmed Muslim civilians, a turning point in Algeria's long independence struggle. On May 8, 1945, thousands had rallied in Setif as allied powers, including colonial ruler France, marked a hard-won victory in Europe over Nazi Germany. "Long live the allied victory," demonstrators shouted.  But the festive gathering soon turned into a demonstratio

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