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ALGERIAN MASSACRE

The night is loaded with the dark meanings of the symbols and those who are in that night are in danger like everyone else. The violent power of the images in the picture is the power of thought. As the night slowly progresses, the scream suddenly fills our ears. When the scream starts to spread, everywhere turns into the colors of darkness. The lights flash for a while. And a woman who has turned into a ghost with her whitened, chalky face, swollen with fear and tense eyes that jut forward, has appeared in the darkness of the night with her naked body. The murderous workers of the night darken the light of the earth by killing people in the alleys, inside the houses, in their sleep. When the night comes and silence covers everywhere, nothing remains but bats and owls. No value lives in the darkness of the night other than the complicity between the bloodsucker and the watcher. In an environment where nothing but the inaudible partnership of these two creatures can be heard, a woman's scream illuminates everything; The early hours of the night when scorpions suddenly emerge from walls, corners, and doorways, turning the sleeping masses into bloody piles of flesh!... Even though the sun seems to rise again and the sky seems to be getting brighter again, the pitch black darkness of the night will not be completely dispersed for a long time, and perhaps never.

The Mediterranean is a sea that separates two universes with the violence it experiences. The Mediterranean is a socio-cultural worldview, a commercial-cultural waterway of a geography of ideas, separating two continents, the first of which is Europe, where historical memories of violence are stored, and the other is Africa's Algeria, the land of oblivion where the sand breeze erases the traces of murderers. Algeria, that is, Europe outside Europe; and the French living in this country; the theoretical citizens of an uncertain nation and the Arabs. The common destiny of a dispossessed people, an active, hard-working people and fatalists; the violent years of people condemned to die in blood and tragedy, fed by the fruits of anger…

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