Abstract
Victims told their stories to the Truth Commission while, in another hall, in other time, perpetrators explained their deeds. During the Algerian War (1954-1962), called “the war of independence”, French soldiers raped many Algerian women, but this remains unknown because of the difficulty of getting to the sources. A long time has passed by war and its history, of rapes are kept secret by both victims and perpetrators. Thus, rapes stay anonymous among war's violence. The sexual violence against Algerian women has many goals which allow us to understand war issues more specifically. Soldiers diaries, highlighted forty years later, the rapes during the Algerian war. In his book Services Spéciaux, Algérie 1955-1957, Paul Aussaresses, general of the French army, recalls what happened during the two years of Algerian war.
