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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GuelmaCity in Algeria
French AlgeriaFrench colony and later territory in Northern Africa from 1830 to 1962
Pieds-noirsFrench people born in Colonial Algeria, and their descendants
SétifCity in Sétif Province, Algeria
Algerian War1954–1962 war of Algerian independence from France
Aftermath of World War IIEvents after the end of the war in 1945
MassacreIncident of killing civilians
Settler colonialismColonialism which replaces natives with settlers
