What caused the Setif massacre?
What caused the Setif massacre? The French colonial authorities and European settlers retaliated by killing between 6,000 and 30,000 Muslims in the region....Sétif and Guelma massacrePerpetratorsFrench authorities and vigilantesMotiveRepression of demonstrations that demand Algerian independence; killing of 102 French settlers by rioters. How was Setif in the past? Sétif, also called Stif, town, northeastern Algeria, near the Wadi Bou Sellam. In 1945 the Sétif town area was the site of a spontaneous outburst against French colonial rule, and more than 100 Europeans were killed. In retaliation, by Algerian count after the fact, between 6,000 and 8,000 Muslims were massacred. Was...