Algerian President: We will not forget the crimes of French colonialism.
The Algerian president said that French crimes in Algeria will not be subject to modern times and that the case must be investigated fairly and transparently.
Algerian President Abdel Majid Tebon stressed on Friday the anniversary of the country’s independence that the crimes of French colonialism in the country will not be forgotten.
The French daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported, quoting Tebon, that French crimes in Algeria will not be covered by the times, and that the case must be investigated fairly and transparently.
He reiterated that Algeria’s demands for compensation for the “victims of the nuclear tests”, which began in 1960 and lasted until 1966, must be met.
In March 1962, the Government of France and the Provisional Government of Algeria signed the Treaty of Evian (a region in France). The agreement emphasized fire. A referendum was held after that, and the Algerian people voted for independence by an overwhelming majority, ending 132 years of French colonization.
Meanwhile, tensions between Algeria and France remain high. Algeria closed six consulates in France in late November.
These consuls are: “Abdul Hamid Ahmad Khoja in Toulouse, Belqasem Mahmoudi in Crete, Hayat Mououj in Pontoaz, Najah Baiz in Bobini. “Tawati in Nice, and Mohammad Saudi in Montpellier.”
“We do not accept the encroachment on the history of a nation and we will not allow the Algerians to be humiliated,” Abdel Majid Taboun said. Reacting to remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron, Tebon stressed that he had caused great damage to relations between the two countries.
“What the French president said is very dangerous,” he said. Because he questioned the history of the Algerian nation before the French colonization.
On October 2, the French newspaper Le Monde quoted Macron as saying that the Algerian president was left undecided in an extremely difficult regime. Macron also claimed that before the French colonization, the Algerian people did not exist and that they were transferred from the Ottoman colonization to another colonization.
