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254: 197: 93:(in French: CRUA - Comité Révolutionnaire d'Unité et d'Action) was formed when the OS was dismantled, and included former members of the OS and radical members of the MTLD. The CRUA was founded by 33 persons. 334: 314: 56:
was in large part the result of the reactions to the fraudulent elections to the Algerian Assembly in 1948 and later, decided and justified by the Governor-General of Algeria
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in 1945, and other examples of violent repression, which all convinced Algerian activists from 1948 onwards that peaceful political work would be pointless.
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CRUA would later evolve into the FLN, and produce the Declaration of 1 November 1954 written by the journalist Mohamed Aïchaoui.
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The OS had around 1,500-2,000 members at its peak, and spawned the groups that would later form the
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The OS was dismantled by French police in 1950, and many members imprisoned. Only the units in
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organization or suspected paramilitary organization is a
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French
paramilitary
Algeria
Mohamed Belouizdad
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties
France
colony
guerrilla warfare
Marcel-Edmond Naegelen
Sétif massacre
FLN
Algerian War of Independence
Aurès
Kabylie
Revolutionary Committee for Unity and Action
Ahmed Ben Bella
Ahmed Mahsas
Hocine Aït Ahmed
Mohamed Aïchaoui
Mohamed Belouizdad
Mohamed Boudiaf
Mourad Didouche
Yahia Boushaki
Tahar Rabia
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