An academic, Pierre Vermeren is a former student of the Ecole normale supérieure, associate and doctor in history. He is the author of fourteen books, including
Le Choc des décolonisations.
From the Algerian War to the Arab Spring
(Odile Jacob, 2015).
Last book published:
On a cassé la République - 150 years of the nation's history
(Taillandier, 2020).
France 2 presented Tuesday, October 6, 2020 two episodes of a long documentary entitled
Decolonizations, blood and tears
, followed by an hour of debate, seen by 1.86 million viewers.
This title evokes Churchill's famous speech of May 13, 1940. Like the Battle of Britain, French decolonization was very deadly: its conflicts left nearly a million dead, half of them in Indochina.
Let us remember, however, which does not alleviate any suffering, that the Second World War killed 50 million people, and intra-African wars since independence at least 16 million.
This is not a victimhood contest,
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