Word: jellagha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eerie and still, chilling Europeans into renewed awareness of their dependence on the Moslems who served them as cooks and maids, clerks and mechanics. The French had warned that they would fire on demonstrators, but in seaboard villages flanking Algiers, the Moslems demonstrated anyway, sometimes led by uniformed jellagha. In Constantine, thousands of Moslems flung themselves against massed French troops. By strike's end, there were 14 French casualties, 88 Moslem dead...
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