Sixty years after the October 17 massacres, Algerians pledge to pursue France to hold it accountable for its crimes

Algeria-SANA

Tomorrow Sunday marks the sixtieth anniversary of the horrific massacre of October 17, 1961, committed by the French against the Algerian workers who demonstrated in Paris in rejection of the French colonialism of their country and its practices. fully committed to bear the consequences of its crimes.

The head of the Algerian National People’s Assembly, Ibrahim Bogali, pointed out that the events of the 17th of October are “the great evidence of the brutality of the colonizer, who met the peaceful demonstrations of all kinds of brutality as they demonstrated against the laws of injustice and oppression that rob freedom and dignity.”

In a speech he delivered during the opening of a historic symposium entitled “The River is Still Blood in the Eyes of Algerians,” Bogali indicated that the Algerian demonstrators came out to denounce the law banning unjustly and aggression against them and raised white banners calling for freedom and rejecting slavery and oppression, noting that this

The events are another luminous episode added to the episodes of the struggle in a long series of valiant resistances throughout the brutal French colonial period.

Bougali stressed that the demonstrations of the 17th of October 1961 will remain firmly rooted in the minds of every Algerian, adding that our righteous martyrs will remain a shining light on the paths of life that we will not deviate from or change.

The Algerian Ministry of Communication, in turn, confirmed in a statement on this occasion that preserving and defending memory is a sacred duty with which we will pursue France today and every day until it fully recognizes its responsibility and is committed to bearing the consequences of its crimes against our nation.

The ministry statement added that the Algerian civilians were subjected to the worst forms of oppression, torture and assassination at the hands of the French colonialists, which left in one day 300 martyrs, including women, children and the elderly in a country that marketed itself slanderously and falsely the role of a human rights defender.

The statement added that the streets of Paris and the River Seine, in which the handcuffed Algerians were thrown, still bear witness to those horrific massacres, which remain a disgrace to France with its record of crimes against humanity and humanity, such as its use of internationally prohibited weapons such as napalm.

And nuclear explosions, genocide, exile, assassinations and displacement for more than a century and thirty years of colonizing Algeria.

The statement stressed that throughout this difficult period, the Algerians remained united as a solid structure in their heroic struggle against the brutal French colonialism, which was embodied in the demonstrations of the 17th of October 1961, which we are proud to commemorate annually and to pass it on to successive generations as a common heritage to the grandchildren of the heroes of the glorious Algerian revolution.

The statement pointed out that introducing these immortal historical stations is a national duty, and preserving and defending memory is a sacred duty with which we will pursue France today and every day.

It is noteworthy that on the 17th of October 1961, the French forces suppressed the Algerian workers who had gathered in peaceful demonstrations in Paris to demand freedom, sovereignty and independence, and attacked them with batons and bullets, and committed a massacre against them that led to the martyrdom of hundreds of people whose bodies were thrown into the Seine.