François Hollande acknowledges 1961 massacre of Algerians in Paris | World news | guardian.co.ukA woman waves an Algerian national flag during a rally to commemorate the 1961 massacre. Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images The French president, François Hollande, has acknowledged that Algerians were massacred during an independence rally in Paris in 1961, ending decades of official silence over one of the darkest chapters of postwar French history.The massacre has been widely recorded b
