FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “”A welcome step”: Macron’s recognition of the assassination of Algerian activist Ali Boumendjel” – below is their description.
“What we’re talking about here is a system of repression.” Cambridge University lecturer Arthur Asseraf says France needs to go beyond acknowledging individual wrongdoings in Algeria.
After recognizing the 1957 “torture and murder” of renowned Algerian activist Ali Boumendjel during his country’s war for independence, President Emmanuel Macron debunked the French army’s line that it was a suicide but refused a blanket apology for colonial rule.
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Algeria, officially the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest by area in the African Union and the Arab world. With an estimated population of over 44 million, it is the eighth-most populous country in Africa.
Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the southeast by Niger, to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and the Western Saharan territory, to the west by Morocco, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country has a semi-arid geography, with most of the population living in the fertile north and the Sahara dominating the geography of the south. This arid geography makes the country very vulnerable to climate change.
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