Torture and execution crimes during the liberation revolution in the fifth state and the counter-reactions 1956-1962

Abstract

Since setting foot on Algerian soil, the French enemy has pursued a policy of repression, persecution, and brutalization, believing this would be sufficient to kill the spirit of revolution and rebellion among Algerians. When the Liberation Revolution broke out, they intensified their repressive methods, refining their selection of torture and brutalization techniques. To this end, they brought in experts in the arts of torture and interrogation, believing this approach was the optimal means to curb the revolution's victories. Consequently, the issue of torture and the crimes committed by the colonial forces became a matter of political and moral significance, embodied by anti-torture stances in Algeria that exposed these practices and made them a global issue.