Tag: Algerian War
In Toul, the statue of General Marcel Bigeard, torturer in the Algerian War, is controversial
This is a controversial statue. In Toul, in the Grand Est region, a sculpture of General Marcel Bigeard was erected last month. Celebrated as a hero of the resistance and…
“We must not reduce memories to a conflicting image”
On November 1, 1954, the Algerian War began. It officially ended on March 18, 1962. Seventy years later, the story remains passionate and passionate between its actors, its heirs and…
Childhoods in war territory, from 1914 to the present day
Historically, in Europe, children’s rights first focused on work, when the industrial revolution pushed their exploitation to a paroxysm. It expanded to education and intra-family relations at the end of…
Harkis: the painful memory of the Bias camp
Sixty years after the end of the Algerian War, descendants of harkis continue to fight for recognition and compensation for the harm suffered by their community. Report from the Bias…
France condemned for welcoming harkis by the European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France this Thursday April 4 for the living conditions “ not compatible with respect for human dignity » harkis in the camps…
President Tebboune confirms his visit to France and a meeting with Emmanuel Macron
In an interview broadcast on Algerian television on Saturday March 30, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune confirmed that he will visit France next fall. Postponed several times, this visit should mark the…
a report to denounce the chains of responsibility in the use of torture
France must recognize its responsibility for torture during the Algerian War (1954-1962), around twenty associations demanded on Monday March 4. At the end of 2022, the Élysée recognized that “…
At the origins of Algerian literature: five questions for Hervé Sanson
Hervé Sanson is a specialist in Maghreb literature. It recounts the conditions for the emergence of French-speaking Algerian literature in the 1950s, as the country plunged into a brutal war…
National day of tribute to the harkis: reparations are still debated
Promulgated in February 2022, the law of recognition and reparation towards the Harkis, auxiliaries of the French army in Algeria, allowed the establishment of an independent National Commission for Compensation…
Jeanne Benameur, daughter of the Mediterranean and sister of Isis
Jeanne thinks, even when she dances, she thinks. She has Atlantic thoughts, also turned towards the Aegean Sea. That’s how in his bag, the undertow of a story begun in…