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France
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OAS Terror Campaign

January 25, 1961 · Algeria and metropolitan France Theater

The OAS campaign failed to prevent independence and was defeated by French security services, but its terrorism killed thousands and contributed to the near-complete disappearance of the European community from Algeria.

January 25, 1961

The Organisation armée secrète (OAS), formed by former French military officers and pied-noir extremists, launched a terror campaign to prevent Algerian independence. The OAS carried out bombings, assassinations, and massacres targeting Muslim Algerians, French liberals, and even attempted to assassinate de Gaulle himself at Petit-Clamart in August 1962. The campaign killed approximately 2,788 people and drove the mass exodus of pieds-noirs from Algeria.

  • OAS Terror Campaign

Commanders

France · General Raoul Salan
France · Jean-Jacques Susini