Abstract
On 17 October 1961 a peaceful protest of Algerians in Paris, against a night-time curfew
which applied only to them, was organised by the Féderation de France of the Front de
Libération National (FLN), near the end of its guerrilla war against the French authorities in
Algeria (1954-1962). The march was brutally repressed by the police, with somewhere in the
region of 200 fatalities. Long a taboo subject in France, these events have recently been the
subject of public controversy, notably during the 1997-98 trial of Maurice Papon, the Paris
prefect of police in 1961, for crimes carried out during the Second World War; and in
Papon's unsuccessful 1999 libel action against the author of a prominent book on the 1961
massacre, Jean-Luc Einaudi.2 This article aims to investigate the neglected subject of
international responses to the 1961 massacre.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History |
| Volume | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2000 |
