Oran massacre of 1962 | |
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Part of the Algerian war | |
Native name | Massacre d'Oran |
Location | Oran, Algeria |
Date | July 5–7, 1962 |
Target | Pied-Noirs |
Deaths | Between 95 and 365 |
Injured | ~161 |
Perpetrators | National Liberation Army Algerian civilians |
Motive | Ethnic conflict |
The Oran massacre of 1962 (5–7 July 1962) was the mass killing of Pied-Noir and European expatriates living in Algeria. It took place in Oran beginning on the date of Algerian independence, and ended on 7 July 1962. Estimates of the casualties vary from a low of 95 (twenty of whom were European)[1] to 365 deaths in a report by a group of historians sent to the French government in 2006,[2] and have been utilised by right-wing parties.[3]