Hello, I'm trying to research Moroccan independence. After King Mohamed V demanded independence in 1944 the French retaliated by killing innocent civilians. There is barely any mention of this anywhere. I was wondering if any of you know of a good resource concerning the killings. -Thanks
This is such a good subject that we actually should have lots to say about, but unfortunately we don’t have much to say, or at least that’s how it seems to me. We were told and taught so little about that era of Moroccan history that could be said in 2 or 3 lines; Mohammed 5 was taken to Madagascar, came back, made a speech in Tangier and that’s it basically. It’s as if we were made not to talk or learn about it, and I think it’s a terrible think. Very little is known about Abdelkrim el khattabi, Allal el fassi, The French general Lyotty, molay hfid, molay abdelaziz, the torture of Moroccans by the French, The massacres des entire villages, and more and more… But I have to tell you, you’d given me an appetite to go search and read more about that almost forgotten era, and I thank you for that. Cheers,
Most of what happened in this period was executed by the king’s soon H2, who was a horrible man with no heart toward who want another life and more democratic, and also to share equally the power.
I’m not sure that French has committed a massacre that some morocco try to rise as a major argumentation to discredit it. Who know seriously what happened to Abdelkrim el khattabi and why did he leave subtly morocco?
There are many questions about this era and what someone believes it’s not necessarily the truth.
Thankx xara2 for this very interessting topic, I would love to learn more about Morocco's fight for independence and the heoic actions of our moujahidines who fought very hard against the French and the Spaiards hoping to give their childrens and the generations to folow better future.
Unfortunately their efforts have bein hajaked, and Morocco is still colonised by remotely controled and corrupted leaders.
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La vie et non la naissance annoblit l'homme :-)
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For just two weeks ago, there was a film in the cinema here in Norway about the French troops in Morocco during the last period of French colonialism. The film is called “Le regard” or in Norwegian “Blikket”. The director of “Le regard” is the Moroccan-Norwegian Nour-Eddine Lakhmari.
The film’s story is about an elderly french photographer, who has been with the french troops in Morocco, when he was 19 years old. He is going to have an exhibiton about his work as a photographer for his 70th birthday and suddenly thinks of photos he has taken in Morocco, when he was a member of the French occupying forces. He decides to go back to Morocco to search for his unexposed films, which he hid somewhere, before he left Morocco.
The film changes between the time now and visualizing the photographer’s memories from his time in the troops.
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