Word: kabylia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorist paper in 1956. "Pierce their eyes. Cut off their arms and hang them." F.L.N. militants took the words to heart, striking at the French, both in Algeria and in France itself, and at Algerian Moslems who refused to cooperate. In 1957 the F.L.N. murdered 300 residents of the Kabylia region whom they suspected of cooperating with a rival group. The French vowed never to talk with such murderers, but both sides eventually sat across a negotiating table at Evian-les-Bains...