On March 18, 1962, the Évian Accords paved the way for Algeria's independence from France after more than seven years of a gruesome war. Sixty years on, the wounds of that bloody conflict are still deep, on both sides of the divide. FRANCE 24 spoke to Algerians and French nationals scarred by the war.
Their names are Lucien, Bachir, Marie-Claude, Serge, Roger and Djamila. They are Algerian or French. In 1954, when the Algerian War of Independence broke out, they were barely out of their teens. It was a time of post-war decolonisation around the world. In Algeria, the so-called indigènes (natives) hoped for an end to 132 years of French colonial rule.
