Sixty years ago, Algerian women and men defeated a century-long and brutal French colonialism; today, they battle their regime’s authoritarianism. This Tuesday, July 5, marks the 60th anniversary of the end of an eight-year-long bloody guerilla war against the French army, where more than one million Algerians lost their lives in defence of their country. France remains reluctant to acknowledge crimes its army committed during the war. The Algerian state has decided to celebrate this year’s anniversary with a military parade, a tradition abandoned by the North African country during Bouteflika…