The National Liberation Front: An Analysis

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Throughout history many revolutions have been attempted, some succeed while others fail, and these revolutions have been attempted in many different ways. The National Liberation Front, referred to as the FLN, conducted one of the successful revolutions in history, removing the French from power in Algeria in 1962. This revolution was conducted militaristically and employed many new strategies to help them gain their independence, but when we look at it retrospectively we wonder whether the FLN actually needed to gain independence through violent means. We must look at their situation very thoroughly and understand their perspective on these issues to make an unbiased judgement towards the morality of this revolt. When looking at the revolution

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