US EditionAlgeria Is Debating a Law to Criminalize French Colonialism.
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The Algerian parliament, through the National People's Assembly, is preparing to discuss next week a draft law criminalizing French colonization of Algeria during the period between 1830 and 1962, in a move that is the first of its kind in its public sessions...
The text will be presented to the Algerian Parliament this Sunday by a number of Members of the House of Commons. It imposes on the French State full responsibility for crimes committed during colonization and demands an apology, as well as compensation.
The Algerian People's National Assembly (PNA), the lower house of parliament, may consider a bill on Sunday that would formally criminalize French colonialism in Algeria. According to a draft text seen by the Algerian platform "Ouras," the proposal represents an unprecedented initiative in the North African country's parliament and seeks to legally define the colonial period between June 14, 1830, and July 5, 1962, as a "state crime." The bill i…
By Farida O. – Algeria is preparing to take a major symbolic step in addressing the historical memory of the French colonial period. Next week, the National People's Assembly (APN) will examine in plenary session a draft law aimed at criminalizing French colonialism in Algeria. This is a first in the history of parliamentary debates on this sensitive issue. According to a statement from the APN, published after a meeting of the bureau chaired by…
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