A book reconstructs a 1956 army massacre in Kabylie
A new study examines the killing of seventy-five Algerians by three companies of the French army, at a moment when, the reviewer warns, colonial violence is again subject to revisionist minimizing.
The literary review En attendant Nadeau has published a piece on a book titled "Un massacre en Kabylie. Algérie, 1956," which reconstructs the killing of seventy-five Algerians by three companies of the French army during the Algerian war.
According to En attendant Nadeau, the book is a valuable contribution at a moment marked by what the review calls insidious historical revisionism concerning colonial rule and its violence.
The source material does not give further detail on the book's author, publisher or length, nor on how the events of 1956 are documented within it.
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