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 Algeria defeats France in the memory file


The link to the report from the source is below👇👇👇

Algeria was and still is right, this is how the international media described President Tebboune's policy, after Benjamin Stora accused the French historian of betraying the French authorities.


And headed by Emmanuel Macron, that it is obstructing reaching a solution to the memory problem with Algeria.


Expressing his deep anger at Paris's refusal to provide the necessary support to French historians, despite the decision of the Algerian and French presidents to establish the Algerian-French Mixed Committee.


To discuss the file of the French colonial past in Algeria, but it turned out that Macron is making an effort to obstruct access to the truth, which confirms to the world that Algeria was and still is right in its decision.


Because French President Emmanuel Macron, who does not get tired of talking about this issue whenever he has the opportunity and the need to overcome it, is the one who puts the stick in the wheel.


Benjamin Stora, one of the most prominent French historians, who works on the memory file between Algeria and France, seems to have taken a step back.


He was always defending the French view of the file, and accusing the Algerian authorities, but this time it seems that he wanted to reveal some facts that hinder the memory file.


Where he told Radio France International: “The question here is that I do not know the means that France has allocated today.


I do not know, I personally worked on this report that everyone knows, perhaps he means the report that he was assigned to complete and handed over to the French presidency in January 2021.


But I have not been paid for it. After three years, volunteer work continues. Therefore, it is still necessary that there be a development of means in France.


Because if the necessary means are not allocated, this committee will face difficulties that may prevent the completion of its mission.


Why is France afraid of revealing the truth about its crimes in Algeria?


The French historian admitted that the mixed committee had only convened once since its inception, and that was at the Institute of the Arab World via video conference.


This meeting lasted for nearly two hours, and was limited to acquaintance between the members of the committee from both sides, indicating that it was agreed that the study of the archives should be from the beginning of 1830.


That is, since France's occupation of Algeria, and not the period of the liberation revolution only, as France wants, and Stora himself sought it through the First Committee.


Benjamin Stora and Abd al-Majid Sheikhi, who was buried early, after Algeria rejected the report prepared by Stora, and demanded an extension of the study period to extend to the year of France's occupation of Algeria.


This decision to extend the study period is behind the French procrastination and its refusal to provide the necessary facilities.


According to Stora, who spoke about the archive looted by France, saying: “There is the interesting thing about the archive that (France) removed from Algeria after independence in 1962.


There are kilometers and kilometers of archives stored mainly in Aix-en-Provence.


So the first task, in my opinion, is really to make a kind of inventory of the archives that exist between France and Algeria.”


And he added: “Once the inventory of this huge amount of the archive is completed, various problems will arise: First, the problem of accessing the archive, and there is also the problem of restoring the archive. At this level, there is no taboo subject from my point of view.



It can be discussed in an open manner.” However, he distinguished between what he called “the archive of sovereignty” and what remains, in his opinion, a French king.


And between what he described as the archive looted from the Algerians during the occupation period, and this remains Algerian, but he talked about the problem of its retrieval that must be researched.


It is certain that what Benjamin said means that the French authorities are not eager to reconcile with their memory in Algeria, because the talk is about 132 years of colonialism.


It will not be in her favor, and the inevitable result is a condemnation of France's crimes in Algeria, and this is what official France does not want, some of whose experts say that France has brought development to the Algerian people!


Benjamin Stora exposes Macron and the French authorities


Despite all this, Benjamin Stora talked about the possibility of holding a second meeting of the Mixed Committee, in the middle of next June.


On the other hand, Stora believes that the problem of providing means and capabilities to facilitate the committee's work has not been resolved, and here it is clear that France does not have the real will to work on this file.


This is what made Stora content himself with wishing that the necessary means would be provided, because otherwise it would lead to the freezing of the work of the Mixed Committee.


This reflects the true intentions of France in dealing with the most difficult file that Algeria has put on its table.


And that Macron's statements are only for media circulation, or that there is a stronger lobby than him in the wheels of government within the Elysee.


The link to the report from the source is here


 


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