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References added, but I imagine it would help if somebody hit this with scholarly sources someday too... Dvyost 14:30, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I heard that the french army massacre was in retaliation to the death of 100 europeans (quite the opposite of the article.) What are the sources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.157.172.233 (talk) 00:50, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The sources are the two external links at the bottom. I agree that they're not as scholarly as I would like (see comment directly above yours); if you have better information, please feel free to plug it in yourself, citing the new sources. Thanks! --Dvyost 15:34, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
That is quite true. But these 100 European killings occurred after deadly shooting by the French authorities against local demonstrators. Nnemo (talk) 02:17, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article is absolutely terrible. The fact that the article keeps repeating that the french soldiers that carried out the massacre were "80% african" makes it read like it was writte by an apologist that is trying to whitewash the entire thing. Other examples of this tendency include the fact that it talks about the number of Algerian dead without ever indicating where they were civilian or not, but then when it talks about the 104 dead french civilians, it specifically says that over half were women and children. In addition, the article says nothing about what the massacre did to the Algerian national psyche, how it contributed to the formation of the Algerian resistance movement, etc. This article needs to be completely overhauled, although I am not the person to do it. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.165.142.84 (talk) 13:35, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Be bold! If you don't care to change obvious biased content, you can always put "citation tags" after dubious assertions (see Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Tazmaniacs 15:43, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is it just me or...

...are some of the links listed at the end of the articel very questionable looking? I'm not feeling quite bold enough to remove some of them, so am asking here... 68.39.174.238 03:07, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Precisions

The number of protesters in the city of Sétif is evaluated to 2000 to 5000 in the latest study on the subject. Vicq 15:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Massacre or Genocide

  • Genocide: "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group"

Muslim Algerians are killed systemically, although there was no war in 1945. The French military units included Muslim tirailleurs and goumiers too, but they came from the French forces of WWII. French forces may contain Muslims or not, French forces killed a religious group systemically with order and not in a war.

  • Massacre: "A massacre is the general and unnecessary slaughter of members of one group by one or more members of another more powerful group. A massacre may be indiscriminate or highly methodical in application."

Sétif incident is not done "unnecessarily", nor "indiscriminate" Just Muslim Algerians are killed by French forces for a reason systemically without war.

This incident is more than a massacre, it's a genocide. Dr.tolga (talk) 01:59, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the sincerity of Dr.tolga's views and certainly have no wish to defend the brutal excesses of French colonialism (I am neither French nor Algerian). However I think that we need to be very careful indeed about the use of the word "genocide" in the context of the Setif events of June 1945. The details of the cycle of killing and counter-killing in and around this town are given in the article and there is no attempt there to excuse the scale and ferocity of the French army and pied-noir reprisals. However there is also no suggestion that these were intended to eliminate or even disperse the entire Muslim population. Accordingly, of the two definitions given above that of "massacre" seems to me to be by far the most appropriate. It is certainly the word used in both English and French language histories of the period. It should be noted that a recent statement by the Turkish Prime Minister accusing the French of genocide in Algeria during the Algerian War of 1954-62, is in response to pending French legislation criminalising denial of the Armenian killings (whether massacres or genocide) of 1915. In short a tit for tat scoring of political points as part of a current dispute between the two NATO allies and not grounds for rewriting history. Buistr (talk) 04:22, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for expressing your opinions. The definition of "genocide" includes: "systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group". Genocide definition doesn't include "intended to eliminate or even disperse the entire Muslim population". If it is "intended to eliminate the whole population" or not, we have to evaluate the international common definition and fix academically and logically the wrong parts of widespread information of history. Recent political discussions are not Wikipedia's subject of interest. Also a widespread information may be wrong too. As i said, Wikipedia users have to discuss and even correct wrong titles and namings about history, widespread or not. Also the definition of Massacre in Wikipedia includes: "A Massacre is a single event, though it may occur during the course of an extended campaign or war." Setif incidents are not a single event. They started in 1945 before and apart the Algerian War. Also i found an independent source of International Center for Watching Violation of Rights, 2010 World Report on Violation of Rights. According to this report, at least 2 million Muslims are killed between 1945-1962. Also this incident is called as "Genocide" according to this independent source. I think we have to use the term "genocide" for this incident because of definitions, indepentent sources and objective numbers. Dr.tolga (talk) 01:14, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for this Dr.tolga. I think that we have set out our respective cases clearly and that it is now a case of seeking concensus opinion from other editors with an interest in Franco/Algerian history. Since the Setif events are closely linked with the subsequent Algerian War of 1954-62 I will post a brief notification of our discussion on the talk page of that article inviting views. If there is no input from any other editors within say a month then perhaps we could refer the question to the appropriate Wikipedia discussion/arbitration forum for consideration. Buistr (talk) 04:10, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your interest. I hope we can correct common terminologic mistakes about history by using objective information without politics. Dr.tolga (talk) 22:51, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Et Guelma?

Is there information in this article about Guelma, as per the title? Perhaps it could be made more explicit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.206.27.69 (talk) 14:45, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. On the same day as the outbreak in Setif there was a second demonstration in Guelma. This was on a smaller scale, was contained by Muslim tirailleurs from the local garrison and (according to French accounts) resulted in only one death and about a dozen wounded. I have added a reference to this in the main text of the article, to explain the (generally used) title.Buistr (talk) 05:19, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Genocide?

How is there absolutely NO mention of this at all? Even the Algerian government itself has asked France to apologize for the 'Algerian Genocide'.

The issue at hand is not whether it is a massacre or a genocide, it isn't up to us to decide that. However, it is up to us to inform people as well as we can and that includes mentioning genocide claims.

This, the article in its current state, is just whitewashing. Clear and simple. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.111.61.102 (talk) 09:25, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Algerian Genocide

More than 2 million Algerians were killed by the French. I believe this constitutes an Algerian Genocide. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.74.186.109 (talk) 06:20, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I second the idea. It is about time. -Ribbontool (talk) 17:24, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The 2 million figure is a rough estimate of total casualties on both sides during the Algerian War of 1954-1962, not the Setif massacre of 1945. Buistr (talk) 21:10, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Clarifying numbers, sections

As a reasonable representative of the typical WP reader who might visit this article (amateur interest in WWII, no background in French-Algerian relations), I'll raise two points of mild confusion that I'm hoping someone might address:

1) The decision to put the "context" section third is atypical for articles like this. With almost no additional work, this section could be renamed "background" and moved before the "outbreak" section. This section might also benefit from one additional introductory sentence clarifying that France had in fact colonized Algeria, probably with an approximate date (these are assumed as background).

2) The "context" section says:

"With the end of World War II, 4,000 protesters took to the streets of Sétif, a town in northern Algeria, to press new demands for independence on the French administration."

...and the "outbreak" section says:

"A parade by about 5,000 of the Muslim Algerian population of Sétif to celebrate the victory ended in clashes between the marchers and the local French gendarmerie, when the latter tried to seize banners attacking colonial rule."

To a naive reader, it's highly unclear whether (a) these are referring to the same event, (b) why the numbers don't agree, and (c) whether the primary motivation for the event was celebration or protest.

I recommend moving the "context" section to a leading "background" section, clarifying this discrepancy, ending the "background" section with the clarified description of the event, and starting the "outbreak" section from the point at which the demonstration/parade was already happening. I think these relatively small changes will improve readability quite a bit.

Thanks!

LittleWalrus (talk)

Sucks they didn't clean up all the muslims like they did to inca/aztec etc while they could. Now we are stuck with them

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