EVENT INFORMATION

17
Mart
1956

A decree activates exceptional measures under the special-powers law

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📅 17 Mart 1956 📍 Algeria

A decree set out exceptional measures for restoring order, protecting persons and property, and safeguarding Algerian territory. Its neutral administrative language concealed an expansion of coercive state authority. These powers operated in a colonial war in which Algerians lacked equal political control over the institutions governing them.

Inisiá sesion pa gusta òf marká e relato aki.
🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

French authorities

Algerian residents subject to emergency measures

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

French government

colonial administration

French Army