It was a day to celebrate the victory of freedom over tyranny, but this day (May 8, 1945) was a sad day for Algeria, when the world rejoiced at the end of the Second World War in Europe,”he said. (The tweet of the US ambassador to Algeria John Desrocher.. Twitter 08/05/2018)
Coinciding with the passing of the 75th anniversary, it refers us to Algerian tales as sad as it may seem, as much as it is a paper reflecting the greatness of the people who suffered for 183 years in the search for independence.
The previous tweet puts us in front of the story of a peasant Sheikh named Ahmed sa'al and his wife Noura Mahdi, who are part of that grief mixed with pride and defiance when they received the news of the martyrdom of their son sa'al Bouzid at the hands of the French police governor Lucien Olivieri. The bullet of treachery settled in the body of the child Bouzid, who did not exceed the age of sixteen, when he was standing in the first rows of the March of the eighth of May 1954 in bastif, carrying the Algerian flag, chanting, along with hundreds of Algerians, “free and Democratic Algeria”.
On that sad day, Algeria did not cry, as the ambassador of the United States of America believes in his tweet, but women did, including the mother of the first martyr who fell on the field of Honor.
♦️Martyrs of Algeria.. If you fall as a martyr, please forgive me, mother♦️
The night of Paris and many European capitals was different that day, dancing, singing and champagne rejoiced at the achievement by the allies of their historic victory over Nazi Germany, which was achieved on the eve of the eighth of May stained with the blood of innocent peoples of the colonial countries-including the Algerian people - in World War II as shields in the first rows.
It is difficult to imagine the feeling of Algerians on that day, when the world's channels and radios were accompanied by music celebrating the end of the World War. Dozens of Algerians have returned to their homes bereaved, widows and orphans. In one day, the features of life changed in three of the most important cities of the Algerian East, Setif, qalma and Kharta, in front of the brutality of the French colonizer, who did not give the inhabitants of villages and towns a few hours to rejoice and peacefully express the dream of freedom.
Among them is the story of Sal Bouzid's cough, which is memorized by schoolchildren today, a story that has been engraved in gold letters in textbooks and history books, generation after generation, and this pause-along with hundreds of people from the village of Zairi in the Cairo municipality of bastif - still gives the people of Algeria the elixir of freedom, pride and pride in this homeland.
There are hardly one or two photos that have remained preserved in the archive of the Algerian Islamic scouts, in which Bouzid learned the ABCs of patriotism, from which he set off to the center of the village square with a heart beating with love for Algeria, carrying the national flag to demand that France fulfill its promises to the Algerian people to grant them independence for their contributions in World War II.
♦️May 8th.. The French colonizer betrays the Algerians♦️
The simplicity of the Algerian people at that time and their kindness made him believe that General de Gaulle would fulfill France's promises to the Algerians, so they came out in all the states, cities and villages, in Annaba, Mesilla, Biskra, Setif, Heliopolis, in the area of Wadi El Maiz, Jisr el awazer, Qantara belkhair and The Straits of Kharta.. They went out one day flying the Algerian national flag for the first time, hoping that the dream would come true before the sun went down that day.
It is only hours until the streets of Algeria turned into a bloodbath with the bodies of more than 45 thousand Algerian victims floating above it, as the approximate figures announced by Algeria indicate, to make clear the features of more malicious intentions of the colonizer, and the people's conviction is growing that there is no solution but an armed struggle to obtain independence from a colonizer who!
At that time, when things were different; no photos and no Facebook pages chronicling the movement of Algerians that was sparked in the east of the country, some local accounts indicate that the child Sahal Bouzid was a well-mannered young man and memorizer of the Koran, like dozens of Algerian villagers who had no other opportunity to learn except Zawiya and katateb.
On the morning of the eighth of May 1945, Bouzid got up early in the hope that Fajr calls would take the country to a long-awaited station in order for people to taste freedom for the first time before sipping coffee the next day, that's why their preparation for that day was similar to the preparations of children for Eid al-Fitr, and the start came from the station mosque, to begin the marches with the slogan “Algeria is free” and demands the release of the pilgrim's prayers and his songs “from our mountains”.
The joy of Bouzid and his companions did not last long, the colonial police entered the line to eliminate all the features of joy, and it chose to turn the event into a funeral where the martyrs would be buried by thousands, and by chance this crime committed by French policemen against humanity was launched from the bullet of the police governor towards the chest of the child Bouzid.. This is how history writes once again how this criminal colonizer is cowardly and despicable when he dares to mercilessly kill children.
The governor of the police thought that his move would cause people to flee in fear, but the women of the village roared and continued to walk among the stray bullets that were hunting them one by one.
Despite the passage of all this time, the story of Bouzid and the policeman continues to mobilize the resolve of Algerians on every occasion and date of protest, even against any force that stands in front of the popular will. Recently, Algerians came out in their demonstrations rejecting the fifth term of the resigned President Abdelaziz Bouteflika carrying pictures of Bouzid's cough, indicating that he really is a symbol of all times, what happened in the May 8 demonstrations will never be erased from memory.
The date of May 8, 1945 is still a stain on the forehead of France, every time it is talked about, a cloud of shame and shame hangs over it, making senior French officials today feel ashamed after the hands of their ancestors were stained with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Algerians. Despite the difficulty of this feeling, France's policy today is accompanied by arrogance and pride and refuses to apologize for the killing of 45 thousand Algerians in a few days.
♦️Setif mass massacre.. The colonizer harvests tens of thousands♦️
That day, which historians describe as a decisive turning point in the course of the national movement, paved the way for the revolution of the first of November 1954, which came to give the Algerian people freedom and independence after seven years of armed struggle.
As the researcher Kamal Ben-Yesh confirms in his book marked by the”massacres of May 8, 1945.. In the face of the mass massacre,” the price of freedom came very dearly. The book included facts and vivid testimonies of those who experienced the event, but what is striking is the lack of an accurate count of the number of victims, the colonizer is still hiding the full real figures, while reports by Algerians indicate that the events left between 45 thousand and 100 thousand dead over the events that lasted throughout the month of May, and also resulted in the French side killed 88 Frenchmen and 150 wounded.
According to the book “May 8, 1945.. The decisive turning point in the path of the national movement,” issued by the university publications Bureau of Dr. Amer rukhaila, the colonizer was not satisfied with the results of that brutal massacre, but declared martial law throughout the country and arrested thousands of citizens and put them in prison on the pretext that they belong to banned organizations, and Constantine's Wali Lestrade carbon played a dirty role in the massacres of May 8, and drew a plan prepared in the city of Burj buwaririj, as Dr. and Mujahid Ammar bin Tomi points out in his book “Crime and Shame”, until “the French governor supervised the formation of gangs and militias working secretly to kill, arrest and torture Algerians”.
♦️France.. We will not apologize to Algeria♦️
In her documentary film”May 8, another 45”, which she directed in 2008, the Algerian director Yasmina Adi says that in Algeria we are talking about 45 thousand dead, and historians ' figures indicate that the figure is between 6 thousand and 25 thousand dead, and the French authorities today admit only seven thousand dead, and according to the director, this assessment has a very symbolic value that exposes an important aspect of the effects of colonial repression.
France viewed the events of May 8 with a lot of suspicion, that's why it decided to dissolve Algerian political movements and parties and issued life sentences, death sentences, exile, deprivation of the most basic civil rights with campaigns of persecution and psychological torture that brought hundreds of Algerians to the stage of insanity.
Since the conquest of the month of May, all the data and indicators have been suggesting the occurrence of events and unrest, the atmosphere is fraught before the massacres of May 8, and according to the reports submitted by the civil rulers in the area of Setif and qalma, the threads of the conspiracy were woven in secret, as the author Frances Desani stated in her book “peace for ten years”, the May 8 station produced a large number of demonstrations and other Algerian States, in response to the appeal of the “Algerian people's party”.
“My happy uncle Alik,” who is considered one of the most prominent Mujahideen and was a witness to the May 8 demonstrations and massacres, said in a statement to the Algerian Press Agency that France's crime has evolved and turned into arson, murder, revenge and throwing Algerians into the valleys as part of the systematic cleansing scheme. The massacres continued until May 22 and included the mass killings that he witnessed with his own eyes in the Malibu region. “The French forces were gathering people to watch the mass killings as a kind of psychological torture and intimidation, before the bodies were cremated and the traces of mass graves were hidden,”he said.
♦️Processed May 8th.. France refuses to apologize♦️
The massacres of May 8, 1945 are just a very simple episode in the series of France's crimes in Algeria.the colonizer excelled in killing, torturing and displacing the Algerian people, and today he refuses to apologize to him, as France has endured despite the fact that French President Manuel Macron admitted the brutality of the colonizer when he was a presidential candidate in 2016.
Since Algeria's independence on July 5, 1962, no French president has responded to such a statement by Macron, which is the first of its kind by a French president since the first official visit by French President Valery Giscard d'estaing in 1975 to independent Algeria.Macron's statements shocked the French right, especially since they came after prevarications from his predecessor, French President Francois Hollande, who adopted a conciliatory tone with history, describing his country's colonization of Algeria as “brutal and unjust”colonialism.
At that time, these statements opened the doors of fire on Macron, and the MP of the French Republican Party Gerard Darmanin and a large number of French right-wing leaders were upset, and Darmanin wrote on his page “shame on Macron who insulted France,” and the official of the National Front Waleran de Saint-just commented, “Macron stabs France from behind.
What matters to the Algerian people today is the obligation of France to officially apologize and move towards accountability, which France still ignores and refuses to respond to it in detail, despite all the requests calling on it to return the Algerian archive and many of the things it took from Algeria, including the skulls of more than 500 Algerians, including the skulls of 36 leaders of the Algerian resistance 19, and is still held by France at the Museum of man in Paris.
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