In 1962 Algeria fights agaisnt France to gains its independence. After that happened the FLN controlled power for 30 years until the people of Algeria revolt.
What It Was Like Before The Revolt:
Before the time in which the people of Algeria took to the streets in protest and the country erupted in chaos, the Algerian people had plenty of reasons to be upset with the government in place. At the time the revolution Algeria had a democratic in which there was only one political party called the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN). Until the time of the revolution the country suffered from severe inflation that created a society in which only the rich could sustain a reasonable life style while the middle and lower classes were left to live a life of poverty. To make matters even worse there was a lack of jobs which threw the already poor economy into an even greater hole. Algerian citizens grew tired of a policy often exercised by the Algerian government called regressive taxes, in which the poor were required to pay larger taxes than the rich who were the only ones who would be able to afford such hight tax rates. Even with so much inequality in the government an even greater and more outrageous event had to take place for the revolution to begin, this became known as the coup d'eat. This was a very troubling issue in which the military, ignoring public elections, arrested and captured democratic leaders and declared a state of emergency which began a troubling begin to the revolution in which 150,000 Algerians were either dead or injured.
"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another." Nelson Mandela
Before the time in which the people of Algeria took to the streets in protest and the country erupted in chaos, the Algerian people had plenty of reasons to be upset with the government in place. At the time the revolution Algeria had a democratic in which there was only one political party called the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN). Until the time of the revolution the country suffered from severe inflation that created a society in which only the rich could sustain a reasonable life style while the middle and lower classes were left to live a life of poverty. To make matters even worse there was a lack of jobs which threw the already poor economy into an even greater hole. Algerian citizens grew tired of a policy often exercised by the Algerian government called regressive taxes, in which the poor were required to pay larger taxes than the rich who were the only ones who would be able to afford such hight tax rates. Even with so much inequality in the government an even greater and more outrageous event had to take place for the revolution to begin, this became known as the coup d'eat. This was a very troubling issue in which the military, ignoring public elections, arrested and captured democratic leaders and declared a state of emergency which began a troubling begin to the revolution in which 150,000 Algerians were either dead or injured.
"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another." Nelson Mandela
Trivia:
1. In what year did Algeria gain its independence? From whom?
2. In what year did the modern revolutions begin?
Answer:
1. 1962, France;
2. 1992
1. In what year did Algeria gain its independence? From whom?
2. In what year did the modern revolutions begin?
Answer:
1. 1962, France;
2. 1992