What happened to the pied-noirs in Algeria was genocide, full stop. Yes, they were "colonists," but that doesn't change anything (aren't Arabs also colonists in North Africa?). Imagine if White Americans or Canadians ("descendants of colonists") were given a choice between the "suitcase or the coffin" (literally what the Europeans in Algeria were presented with) as some kind of decolonization effort by Third Worlders. Algeria was all the pied-noirs had known for generations, and what befell them gets swept under the rug due to the post-World War II (dis)order.