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French army causes Cap Bone massacre in Tunisia

72
years ago

28 January 1952,

The French army caused the Cap Bone massacre in Tunisia. The French Government was fighting the independence movement and the tension was great. The operation was commissioned by Commander Pierre Garbay, responsible for the repression that caused 100,000 deaths in the uprising against the French in Madagascar in 1947. French troops killed 200 civilian robes, including children, raped many women, robbed and exploited their homes with dynamite.

Source:

Sandrine Lemaire, Pascal Blanchard and Nicolas Terraces, Décolonisations françaises. La chute d’un empire (La Martinière).

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