Round 5: Tossup 11

The graffiti “here we drown [people from this country]” was created during a 1961 massacre led by the former Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon. The gégène (10[1])(“zhay-ZHEN”) was used to conduct torture in this modern-day country, in which the paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen participated. (10[4])In this modern country, Raoul Dufy founded (10[1])the far-right OAS, which attempted to assassinate (10[1])Charles de Gaulle. (10[1])This country’s (10[1]-5[1])independence led to an exodus of white pieds-noirs (10[3])(“pyay-nwar”). The Fourth French Republic ended due to a revolution in this country, which was granted independence in the 1962 Évian Accords. For 10 points, what country’s FLN fought French colonial forces in the Battle of Algiers? ■END■

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