Word: kabylia
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...gendarmes tried to wrest the banners away, and then, inevitably, a shot rang out. In sudden fury, bands of Moslems took off through Setif, savagely attacking every European they saw with clubs, knives and hatchets. And as word of the Setif "uprising" spread through the rugged mountains of Kabylia, bloodthirsty Berber bands, killing, pillaging and looting, set off on the warpath against the area's 200,000 Europeans...
...outpouring of Moslem voters stunned the most optimistic Frenchmen. Even in the mountains of Kabylia, once an F.L.N. stronghold, Moslem women swathed in traditional robes waited patiently to cast the first vote of their lives. At Mostaganem, one pregnant Moslem woman defied doctor's orders to take her place in line and produced her baby right in the polling station. In impressive numbers, they voted for De Gaulle...
...else wanted because the duty was both dull and dangerous. Early in February this year, the risks caught up with him. Algerian rebels, disguised in the Spahi uniform of Dubos' troopers, overran the El Hourane post, carried Olivier Dubos and 17 of his men into captivity in the Kabylia mountains...
...Nothing, Nothing. Discharged from the army late in 1945, Krim went home to the Kabylia and plunged into the nationalist movement. The French claim he became a bandit after killing a man who won the garde champètre job that he coveted. Krim denies the story, says he was wanted by the police for nationalist agitation, and fled to the hills to escape a two-year jail sentence for "an attack on French sovereignty." From then on Krim and his colleagues started preparing military rebellion...
Assigned to command of Willaya (Zone) Three, his home region of Kabylia, Krim set about establishing politico-military structures in some 2,000 villages. Each village organization was based on a three-man cell-tax collector, recruiter and judge-and when terror proved necessary to rally the Moslems, the F.L.N. did not hesitate...