Sétif and Guelma massacre

When

1945 – 12 May 1945

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

3,000

Coordinates

28.00° N, 2.00° E

Description

massacre in Algeria in 1945

1945 mass murder of Muslims in French Algeria

The Sétif and Guelma massacre was a series of massacres by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians in May and June 1945 around the towns of Sétif and Guelma in French Algeria.

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• Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sétif and Guelma massacre: in Algeria, thousands die as French troops and released Italian POWs kill an estimated 6,000 to 40,000 Algerian citizens”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Eine Kundgebung in der algerischen Stadt Sétif weitet sich zu tagelangen Unruhen aus”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Баборской Кабилии (Французский Алжир) вспыхивает антифранцузское восстание”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Argelia, La armada francesa realiza las Masacres de Sétif y Guelma”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page