Talk:Sétif massacre
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— mark ✎ 09:37, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Refs added
References added, but I imagine it would help if somebody hit this with scholarly sources someday too...
Dvyost 14:30, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I heard that the french army massacre was in retaliation to the death of 100 europeans (quite the opposite of the article.) What are the sources?
- The sources are the two external links at the bottom. I agree that they're not as scholarly as I would like (see comment directly above yours); if you have better information, please feel free to plug it in yourself, citing the new sources. Thanks! --Dvyost 15:34, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
This article is absolutely terrible. The fact that the article keeps repeating that the french soldiers that carried out the massacre were "80% african" makes it read like it was writte by an apologist that is trying to whitewash the entire thing. Other examples of this tendency include the fact that it talks about the number of Algerian dead without ever indicating where they were civilian or not, but then when it talks about the 104 dead french civilians, it specifically says that over half were women and children. In addition, the article says nothing about what the massacre did to the Algerian national psyche, how it contributed to the formation of the Algerian resistance movement, etc. This article needs to be completely overhauled, although I am not the person to do it. Thanks. 1 November 2005.
Wikipedia:Be bold! If you don't care to change obvious biased content, you can always put "citation tags" after dubious assertions (see Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Tazmaniacs 15:43, 1 November 2006 (UTC)