Algeria-SANA
Today, the Algerian government renewed its demand for France to recognize its colonial crimes that claimed the lives of thousands of the Algerian people.
The Algerian government spokesman, Minister of Communication Ammar Belhimer, said in an interview with Al-Masaa newspaper that France’s failure to recognize its crimes has its reasons known by “nostalgia for the colonial past and the illusion of French Algeria.” It cannot be long.
Belhimer added that the work and contacts that started between the two parties, beginning with the retrieval of the martyrs' skulls last July, continue to continue to destroy more achievements and achieve the most important moral achievement, which is the recognition of France's colonial crimes.
Belhimer's statement comes after the publication of the report of the French historian Benjamin Stora, which was commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron last July to prepare a report on France related to the memory of colonialism and the Algerian war that ended with the latter's independence in 1962.
Stora's report, which he presented to the French president on January 20, sparked a lot of controversy and criticism in the media and among historians.
For its part, the National Organization of the Mujahideen, "The Combatants of the Algerian Liberation War", rejected the Stora report because it "condoned talking about the multiple crimes that France committed with the recognition of the French themselves."
The head of the combat engineering department of the Algerian ground forces command, Brigadier-General Bouzid Boufrioua, called on France yesterday to assume its historical responsibility towards its nuclear tests in the Algerian desert and to address the mistakes of the past.
The French occupying forces committed heinous murders against the Algerian people during the colonial era, especially on May 8, 1945, when French forces killed more than 45,000 Algerians, according to official figures, at that time, they went out in a peaceful demonstration to demand the independence of their country.