A Brief Look At The Battle Of Algiers

The Algerian war can be seen as a significant decolonization war, a war that not only showed conflict between loyalist Algerians supporting a French Algeria and their Algerian nationalist counterparts. But it was also characterized by the National Liberation front’s guerrilla warfare, and the use of torture by both sides. In the Battle of Algiers, one can see how the FLN guerrilla insurrection and the French counter insurgency committed atrocities against each other, something of which would later lead to the Independence of Algeria. Nevertheless, when looking at the torture and atrocities done by both the French and the FLN one can recognize how both the French and FLN tried to exercise control over their fates in Algeria.
In the film the Battle of Algiers we come to understand how French paratroops are routinely using torture, intimidation, and murder as a key way of suppressing the National Liberation front’s power on the Casba. We also see Characters such as Colonel Mathieu
In the film the Battle of Algiers’s we see how torture was used to control the Casba. This is best seen at the beginning of the film in which we see an Algerian man after he has been tortured give the were a bouts of Ali La Pointe and the last of the FLN, after which the man is forced to follow French soldiers to their location were Ali La Pointe and the last of the FLN including a child were blown up. This is important to look at because it shows how much power that torture had on the Algerian people. It essentially allowed the French to have control over the Casba for a period of time by committing horrific things to the Algerian people in which to stop the FLN. In the film Col. Mathieu while talking to news media outlets of the time