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The Algerians who fought for France

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Algeria - The Prison of Mohammad Zanun

My father was demobilized in april 19 62. He took my mother, that recently married, and he moved back to his native village by the sea. Spurned by his father, denounced by his fellow algerians, brahim eventually left the country and made his way to france. Meanwhile, mohammed zanon tried to stay in algeria. In mid july, the efelan came and arrested him. And sent him to prison. Mohammed zanun spent five years in first a military camp and then a prison. The weather conditions were extremely harsh for them. Some of the camps that the hakes were sent to were even worse, more

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