International Investigation Algerian war of independence: when the French army generalised the use of torture While mention of the word torture was banned from official language at the time, the ...

He also faced a few angry chanters who reminded him they haven't forgotten about the "martyrs" of the Algerian war for independence. "A lot remains to be done," he later acknowledged. The true ...

Instead, he agreed to form a "truth commission" as recommended by a report commissioned by the government to shed light on France's colonial past. French forces "tortured and murdered" Algerian ...

Rachid Mekhloufi, a star of French football who became a symbol of the Algerian fight for independence, has died aged 88, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced on Friday. In 1958 ...

Algeria's bloody eight-year war for independence after more than a century ... Both sides agree the vast majority of blood spilt was Algerian. It ended with the signing in March 1962 of the ...

They were unusually strong remarks from the Algerian leader, and a reminder of the lingering tensions with France more than 60 years after Algeria won its independence in a painful 1954-1962 war.

The experts also asserted that the new law was “contrary to the spirit and letter of the Franco-Algerian Evian agreement” by which Algeria won independence from France after many years as a ...

for that would recognize Algerian independence. But the FLN cannot stop fighting, because that is their trump card." When de Gaulle came to power, Aron said, "he was a representative of everything ...

Le fondateur de l’école de commerce Digital College a financé son mariage et a acheté plus de 500 000 euros de cartes Pokémon avec l’argent de l’établissement, selon les informations ...

The fixing of a remembrance day, exactly 50 years after the war ended ... army against Algerian insurgents, oppose the idea. Hollande last month became the first French president to acknowledge ...