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The movement for Algerian independence began during World War I and gained momentum after World War II with the establishment of National Liberation Front (FLN) in October 1954. In November of that year, the FLN launched attacks against the French army that would drag out into an eight-year war of attrition in which over a million Algerians would perish (from an initial population of 9 million at the war’s beginning). After the French lost their will to fight an eternally bloody conflict, a referendum was held in 1962 in which the Algerian people voted for independence.