Facing up to history: France and Algeria's bloody past
Paris (AFP) March 10, 2021
As President Emmanuel Macron orders his officials to speed up the opening of France's archives on the Algerian war, we look at the North African country's bloody struggle against French rule. The war of independence left half a million dead according to the French, or 1.5 million according to the Algerians, and very nearly tore France apart. Soul searching over the torture and killings c
