#wahran

📍 MERIDIEN, Oran, Algeria 🇩🇿

I will quote an Algerian historian who actually lived in Wahran during the war here is what he said about the so called massacre “This is something that can only be understood if one understands the hat happened before.” There’s a fucking context of people not being allowed in the majority of the town were they were born and raised because they were Algerians meanwhile settlers had all the rights.

Context: During French colonialism in Algeria Wahran (Oran) was a settler majority town. It was a region very violent against indigenous Algerians and the segregation was worst than in the rest of the country. When the war of liberation started it got worst the settlers became more violent. Even buying food was dangerous and Algerians from Wahran had to send group of men to be able to go buy food for the neighborhood safely, you couldn’t send a child or a woman or even go alone as a man it wasn’t safe. Toward the end of the war when they realized that Algeria would be independent and the OAS was created (a white supremacist terrorist group) they found a lot of support in the settler population of Wahran. It was so horrible for Algerians that at the independence they attacked the settlers who were still in Wahran to kick them out. Colonial nostalgia means they call what happened a “massacre” and always talk about how traumatizing it was. Wahran is THE “traumatic” experience they love to mention so much. So the girl saying “your grandma is a settler? I’m a Wahrania” is just so freaking sweet.