We bring you a special show marking 60 years since the end of the war in Algeria and the end of more than 130 years of French colonisation. Filmmaker and French-Algerian journalist Dorothée Myriam Kellou speaks to Eve Jackson about her award-winning film "In Mansourah, You Separated Us". The documentary sheds light on a largely silenced, yet essential part of Algerian-French colonial history.
During the Algerian War of Independence, Mansourah was one of thousands of communities the colonial French rulers turned into resettlement camps. These forced removals affected nearly half the rural Algerian population, and at the end of the war, more than two million people were dispersed between two thousand "regroupement camps" created by the French army. The deeply moving documentary sees the director take her father, Malek, back to Mansourah – a village he fled as a 10-year-old boy in 1960. It unravels her father's story but also the memories of those displaced as well as the inhabitants who saw their village turn into a camp they could not escape from.
We also bring you a special report from Renaud Lefort and Emerald Maxwell on two artists who've been reflecting on one of the darkest pages of France's colonial history. In October 1961, around 30,000 Algerians took to the streets of Paris in a peaceful protest against a curfew. That day is now known as the Paris massacre of 1961. It's estimated that 200 people were killed by the police, with some even thrown into the River Seine.
