Djamila boupacha biography
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Djamila Boupacha : the story of the torture of a ung Algerian girl which shocked liberal French opinion / [by] Simone de Beauvoir and Gisele Halimi ; Translated from the French by Peter Green
- Bib ID:
- 4968159
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- Book
- Author:
- Beauvoir, Simone dem, 1908-1986
- Edition:
- [1st American ed.]
- Description:
- New York : Macmillan, [1962]
- 250 p. : ill. ports. 22 cm.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Halimi, Gisèle
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Djamila Boupacha
Algerian militant (born 1938)
Not to be confused with Djamila Bouhired.
Djamila Boupacha (Arabic: جميلة بوباشا, born 9 February 1938) is a former militant from the Algerian National Liberation Front. She was arrested in 1960 for attempting to bomb a cafe in Algiers.[1]
Her confession, which was purportedly obtained by means of torture and rape, and her subsequent trial affected French public opinion about the methods used by the French army in Algeria after publicity by Simone de Beauvoir and Gisèle Halimi. Boupacha was sentenced to death on 29 June 1961, but was given amnesty under the Evian Accords and later freed on 21 April 1962.
Early life
[edit]Djamila Boupacha was born on 9 February 1938, in Saint-Eugène (today Bologhine) to an uneducated but French-speaking father (Abdelaziz Boupacha) and a mother (Zoubida Amarouche) who did not speak French.[2]
She joined the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto (UDMA) of Ferhat Abbas
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3 ‘Women who struggle’: decolonisation and the Algerian War, 1954–62
The French invaded Algeria in 1830. They expanded their presence, culminating in the annexation of Algeria as a colony in 1837. In the new Constitution of 1848, the occupied Algerian territory was recognised not as a colony, but as an integral part of France itself.
Algerian nationalism had its roots in the interwar period, when influential Algerian nationalist groups were founded by Messali Hadj (1898–1974) and Ferhat Abbas (1899–1985). On 1 November 1954, a series of attacks were carried out across Algeria, killing ten people. A newly formed organisation, the National Liberation Front (Front de libération nationale, or FLN), claimed responsibility for the attacks and issued a declaration setting out its aims. This marked the beginning of the Algerian War of Independence.
Although the leaders of the FLN and of the French government were all men, women played a crucial role in the Algerian