{"id":37375,"date":"2025-05-09T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/05\/09\/remembering-setif-the-ve-day-colonial-massacres-that-lost-algeria-for-france\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T18:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:01:44","slug":"remembering-setif-the-ve-day-colonial-massacres-that-lost-algeria-for-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/05\/09\/remembering-setif-the-ve-day-colonial-massacres-that-lost-algeria-for-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering S\u00e9tif, the VE Day colonial massacres that \u2018lost Algeria\u2019 for France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Eighty years ago this week, as jubilant crowds in Europe celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany, French forces launched a ferocious colonial crackdown in eastern Algeria where demonstrators had dared to raise the Algerian flag. The S\u00e9tif massacres would lead Algerian nationalists to embrace armed struggle, paving the way for the country\u2019s gruesome war of independence. Long forgotten in France, the tragedy still poisons relations between the two countries.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty years ago this week, as jubilant crowds in Europe celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany, French forces launched a ferocious colonial crackdown in eastern Algeria where demonstrators had dared to raise the Algerian flag. The S\u00e9tif massacres would lead Algerian nationalists to embrace armed struggle, paving the way for the country\u2019s gruesome war of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-37375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}