Objectives of the Conference

Objectives of the Conference:

  • To investigate the historical backgrounds of the events and expose the colonial policy of ethnic cleansing.
  • To highlight the role of Algerian resistance in sustaining and developing liberation consciousness.
  • To reveal, through newly available documents, further details of the massacres and their repercussions on both sides.
  • To examine coverage of the massacres in national, French, and international media from 1945 to the present.
  • To explore the influence of the massacres on research, literary, and artistic productions at national and international levels.