Morice Line

It was constructed under French authority to prevent supplies reaching the rebel guerrillas of the Algerian National Liberation Front in the then French-controlled Algeria, from the neighbouring country of Tunisia.

Though the Morice Line was not a "fortification" in the traditional sense of the word, it was nonetheless effective in reducing FLN activity during the Algerian War.

Following the end of the war in 1962, extensive efforts were made by the new Algerian authorities to clear and dismantle the Morice Line.

They included the forced employment of captured harkis and other Muslim loyalists who had served with the French Army, many of whom were killed by landmines.

[2] Decades after the confrontation came to an end, the Morice Line, which had been heavily mined by the French, continued to cause casualties among local Algerian populations.