Some governments and scholars have called France 's conquest of Algeria a genocide for example , Ben Kiernan an Australian expert on the Cambodian genocide wrote in '' Blood and Soil : A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur '' on the French conquest of Algeria : '' '' By 1875 , the French conquest was complete . The war had killed approximately 825,000 indigenous Algerians since 1830 . A long shadow of genocidal hatred persisted , provoking a French author to protest in 1882 that in Algeria , " we hear it repeated every day that we must expel the native and if necessary destroy him . " As a French statistical journal urged five years late , " the system of extermination must give way to a policy of penetration . " - Ben Kiernan , Blood and Soil '' '' In response to France 's recognition of Armenian Genocide , Turkey accused France of committing genocide against 15 % of Algeria 's population
Cambodian genocide
Cambodian genocide
French Algeria