Revue de Recherches et Etudes Scientifiques
Volume 17, Numéro 1, Pages 728-746
2023-01-22

French Colonial Crimes In Algeria - The Massacre Of The May 8th 1945 -a Crime With Impunity-

Authors : Miad Rachid .

Abstract

During their occupation of Algeria, the French colonial civil and military authorities carried out a criminal plan to exterminate the Algerians, and proceeded to use all possible measures available to them to suppress the Algerians without distinguishing defenseless civilians from children, women and the elderly. And in this regard, colonial France committed hundreds of mass massacres, and individual and random killings, and perhaps the most prominent of these massacres during the 20th century is the massacre of May 8, 1945, which we will try to highlight in this article.

Keywords

Crimes, massacres, colonial policy, May 08, 1945, responsibility for crime, law, punishment