The guerrilla attacks that took place on the 31st of October in 1954 signaled the start of the Algerian War of Independence. French police and military out posts located in the Aures Mountains were targeted by the Algerian National Liberation Front; FLN for short. The series of rebellious events that occurred between 1954 and 1957 against the French in the capital of Algeria ultimately led to Algeria gaining its official independence from France on the third of July in 1962. A truce had finally been reached between French President Charles de Gaulle and the Muslim-led National Liberation Front. According to the first chapter, “On Violence,” of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon argues that the colonial world represents naked violence.
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Colonialism in reality is the thorough subjugation of shared racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural characteristics, and its goal is to ensure the supremacy and continuity of the colonizer over the colonized. As seen in the prehistory of the Algerian War of Independence, colonialism has always brought with it an immense amount of violence. France occupies Algiers in 1830 and finally subjugates Algeria in 1847. From the very beginning the French settlers aim to ensure that the political and economic power becomes entirely theirs, and it soon does. As a result the weak and deprived Arab majority begins to take action during the 20th century. On the 31st of October in 1954 several guerilla attacks are carried out against French police and military outposts in the Aures Mountains. Shortly after, a manifesto is issued on the first of November in 1954 declaring that the recent coordinated terrorist attacks were the work of the newly formed National Liberation Front or FLN. The manifesto also stated that the political goal of the FLN was to make Algeria completely independent. Four years later, Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France, which only worsens the fighting in Algeria (Wikipedia). Throughout the first chapter, concerning violence, in The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon fearlessly criticizes the colonial world and describes colonial exploitation, “It is naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence” (Fanon, 23). According to Fanon, in order to bring about independence the oppressed colonized majority must realize that they can no longer remain passive and that action taken against the colonizer is necessary to start the process of decolonization. The colonized must exercise a greater amount
Colonialism in reality is the thorough subjugation of shared racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural characteristics, and its goal is to ensure the supremacy and continuity of the colonizer over the colonized. As seen in the prehistory of the Algerian War of Independence, colonialism has always brought with it an immense amount of violence. France occupies Algiers in 1830 and finally subjugates Algeria in 1847. From the very beginning the French settlers aim to ensure that the political and economic power becomes entirely theirs, and it soon does. As a result the weak and deprived Arab majority begins to take action during the 20th century. On the 31st of October in 1954 several guerilla attacks are carried out against French police and military outposts in the Aures Mountains. Shortly after, a manifesto is issued on the first of November in 1954 declaring that the recent coordinated terrorist attacks were the work of the newly formed National Liberation Front or FLN. The manifesto also stated that the political goal of the FLN was to make Algeria completely independent. Four years later, Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France, which only worsens the fighting in Algeria (Wikipedia). Throughout the first chapter, concerning violence, in The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon fearlessly criticizes the colonial world and describes colonial exploitation, “It is naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence” (Fanon, 23). According to Fanon, in order to bring about independence the oppressed colonized majority must realize that they can no longer remain passive and that action taken against the colonizer is necessary to start the process of decolonization. The colonized must exercise a greater amount