. . . "--09-30"^^ . . . "France"@en . "900"^^ . "Paul Aussaresses"@en . "Ali La Pointe"@en . "French military victory"@en . "8000"^^ . . . . "British H-Bomb Fired As Debate On Atom Test Ban Rages, 1957/06/03"@en . . "300"^^ . . . "24000"^^ . . "Yves Godard"@en . "the Algerian War"@en . "Saadi Yacef"@en . "Algiers, French Algeria"@en . . . "The Battle of Algiers was a campaign of urban guerrilla warfare carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against the French Algerian authorities from late 1956 to late 1957. The conflict began as a series of terrorist attacks by the FLN against the French forces and civilians in Algiers, reprisals followed and the violence escalated leading the French Governor-General to deploy the French Army in Algiers to suppress the FLN. Civilian authorities left all prerogatives to General Massu who, operating outside legal frameworks between January and September 1957, successfully eliminated the FLN from Algiers. The documented extensive use of torture, forced disappearances and illegal executions by the French later caused severe controversy in France. Militarily, the French nearly entirely destroyed the FLN due to the counter-insurgency measures. However, the controversy about the human rights violations led to a weakening of the French position in the conflict, which is often regarded to have played a role in the French retreat from Algeria 1962."@en . "Larbi Ben M'hidi"@en . "Marcel Bigeard"@en . "1000"^^ . "Battle of Algiers"@en . "1957-06-03"^^ . "1500"^^ . "Battle of Algiers (1956-7)"@en . . "FLN"@en . "The Battle of Algiers was a campaign of urban guerrilla warfare carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against the French Algerian authorities from late 1956 to late 1957. The conflict began as a series of terrorist attacks by the FLN against the French forces and civilians in Algiers, reprisals followed and the violence escalated leading the French Governor-General to deploy the French Army in Algiers to suppress the FLN. Civilian authorities left all prerogatives to General Massu who, operating outside legal frameworks between January and September 1957, successfully eliminated the FLN from Algiers. The documented extensive use of torture, forced disappearances and illegal executions by the French later caused severe controversy in France. Militarily, the French nearly entire"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The remains of a house in the casbah destroyed in the explosion that killed Ali la Pointe"@en .