On May 8, 1945, Algeria still remembers the genocide committed by colonialism against Algerian demonstrators who took to the streets to remind France of its commitments in the aftermath of the Second World War. Tens of thousands of Algerians were massacred, lynched, tortured, and burned in lime kilns by the French army for saying no to "colonialism." Today is a day of mourning in Algeria. The day when the cities of Sétif, Guelma, and Kherrata in particular, and other cities in general, were the scene of a mass murder of more than 45,000 Algerians after having simply demanded the right to exist and the end of colonialism, in the aftermath of the Allied victory over Nazism. The repression officially ended on May 22. On February 28, 1946, the rapporteur of the amnesty law (which was voted) declared in session, far from the reality of the facts: 4,500 arrests were thus carried out, 99 death sentences of which 22 were carried out, sixty-four sentences to forced labor and there would still be 2,500 natives to be judged.
