Martin Antonenko
A Fixture
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Two different years - the same day - in between a tragedy!
On July 5, 1830, 37,000 French soldiers under Maréchal Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont...
...after fierce battles with its inhabitants...
...take the city of Algiers...:
The French were in the wake of the so-called "fly-whisker affair," in which the Dey of Algiers publicly slapped the outrageously arrogant French ambassador...
...landed in Algeria.
After conquering the city, the French gradually occupied the whole country, first making it their colony, dividing it into three departments and declaring it French territory on August 26, 1881.
The French don't really care about the Algerians themselves - French settlers, the so-called "pieds noirs" (= "black feet") and the administration want to exploit the country as best they can.
The military uses the country in their own way: Since 1960, the so-called "Opération gerboise bleue" ("= Operation blue jerboa)" has been running in Algeria, which means a total of 17 nuclear weapons tests in the Sahara - four of them are above ground, 13 underground.
The top French military and politicians literally walk over dead bodies!
In one of the above-ground tests, 300 previously selected French soldiers of Algerian nationality are ordered to a position just 700 meters from the site of a nuclear weapon explosion and are deliberately exposed to radiation - to test the effects on them!
The civilian population plays absolutely no role! France has repeatedly declared the test area to be "virtually deserted," but this will neither be checked nor - if they are found - people living there warned or evacuated.
To date, no compensation has been paid to the survivors - the test areas near Reggane and Ekker are also still massively contaminated.
Algeria is by far the darkest chapter in French history!
On July 5, 1962, after winning a bloody and brutal war of liberation that claimed the lives of some 1.5 million Algerians (the vast majority civilians/non-combatants), Algeria declared...
... its independence from France....:
Between July 5, 1830 and Independence Day on July 5, 1962 lies a bloody tragedy...
And what the reveling Algerians cannot know: they will soon be living in a dictatorship, for their now-celebrated freedom-fighter idols will all too soon find pleasure in the temptations of power...
On July 5, 1830, 37,000 French soldiers under Maréchal Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont...
...after fierce battles with its inhabitants...
...take the city of Algiers...:
The French were in the wake of the so-called "fly-whisker affair," in which the Dey of Algiers publicly slapped the outrageously arrogant French ambassador...
...landed in Algeria.
After conquering the city, the French gradually occupied the whole country, first making it their colony, dividing it into three departments and declaring it French territory on August 26, 1881.
The French don't really care about the Algerians themselves - French settlers, the so-called "pieds noirs" (= "black feet") and the administration want to exploit the country as best they can.
The military uses the country in their own way: Since 1960, the so-called "Opération gerboise bleue" ("= Operation blue jerboa)" has been running in Algeria, which means a total of 17 nuclear weapons tests in the Sahara - four of them are above ground, 13 underground.
The top French military and politicians literally walk over dead bodies!
In one of the above-ground tests, 300 previously selected French soldiers of Algerian nationality are ordered to a position just 700 meters from the site of a nuclear weapon explosion and are deliberately exposed to radiation - to test the effects on them!
The civilian population plays absolutely no role! France has repeatedly declared the test area to be "virtually deserted," but this will neither be checked nor - if they are found - people living there warned or evacuated.
To date, no compensation has been paid to the survivors - the test areas near Reggane and Ekker are also still massively contaminated.
Algeria is by far the darkest chapter in French history!
On July 5, 1962, after winning a bloody and brutal war of liberation that claimed the lives of some 1.5 million Algerians (the vast majority civilians/non-combatants), Algeria declared...
... its independence from France....:
Between July 5, 1830 and Independence Day on July 5, 1962 lies a bloody tragedy...
And what the reveling Algerians cannot know: they will soon be living in a dictatorship, for their now-celebrated freedom-fighter idols will all too soon find pleasure in the temptations of power...
