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Vigilante attacks on civilians on one side of this conflict were pejoratively nicknamed “rat-hunts.” The non-Irish “Red Hand” terrorist organization carried out a series of bombings and assassinations targeting one side of this conflict. One battle in this conflict began after the bombing of the Milk Bar Café. (10[1])One side’s use of torture in this conflict was later deemed “necessary” by a colonel serving under General Jacques Massu. Thousands of bombings towards the end of this conflict were carried out by a far-right organization founded by Raoul Salan, the OAS. Many pieds-noirs (“pyay-nwarr”) emigrated en masse following this conflict, which ended with the signing of the Évian Accords by the FLN. For 10 points, name this colonial war in which a North African nation seceded from France. ■END■

ANSWER: Algerian War of Independence [or Algerian Revolution or Guerre d’Algérie; reject “Algerian Civil War”]
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