Round 7: 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 (“zhay-ZHEN”) was used (10[1])to conduct torture in this modern-day country, (-5[1])in which the paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen participated. In this modern (-5[1])country, Raoul Dufy founded the far-right OAS, (-5[1])which attempted to assassinate (10[1])Charles de Gaulle. This country’s independence (10[2])led to an exodus of white pieds-noirs (“pyay-nwar”). The Fourth French Republic (10[1])ended (10[1])due to a revolution in this country, which was granted independence in the 1962 (10[1])Évian Accords. (10[1])For 10 points, what country’s FLN fought French colonial forces in the Battle of Algiers? ■END■

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