"Algeria's parliament has unanimously approved a law declaring France's colonisation of the country a crime and demanded an apology and reparations. Lawmakers, standing in the chamber wearing scarves in the colours of the national flag, chanted long live Algeria on Wednesday as they applauded the passage of the bill, which states that France holds legal responsibility for its colonial past in Algeria and the tragedies it caused."
"The legislation lists the crimes of French colonisation, which include nuclear tests, extrajudicial killings, physical and psychological torture and the systematic plundering of resources. It states that full and fair compensation for all material and moral damages caused by French colonisation is an inalienable right of the Algerian state and people. France's rule over Algeria from 1830 until 1962 wasa period marked by mass killings and large-scale deportations, all the way up to the bloody war of independence from 1954 to 1962."
Algeria's parliament unanimously approved a law declaring France's colonisation a crime and demanding an apology and reparations. Lawmakers wore scarves in the national flag colours, chanted long live Algeria and applauded the bill's passage. The law states that France holds legal responsibility for its colonial past and lists crimes including nuclear tests, extrajudicial killings, physical and psychological torture, and the systematic plundering of resources. The legislation affirms that full and fair compensation for material and moral damages is an inalienable right of the Algerian state and people. French rule from 1830 to 1962 and contested death tolls from the independence war are cited. France has acknowledged colonisation as a crime against humanity but has not offered an apology.
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