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FLN Soldiers

FLN Soldiers
Algerian Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) soldiers stand at attention. Nine Algerian exiles founded this political-military organization in 1954 to wage the Algerian War of Independence against France. The FLN became Algeria’s sole legally recognized party from 1962 to 1989. The armaments shown in this 1957 photograph were supplied by the British government.
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Front de Libération Nationale; Algerian War of Independence; Algeria; Africa
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