Algeria Genocide, Implemented by France

* What is the Algerian Genocide Committed by the French?

Approximately 1.5 million Algerian Muslim Arabs were tortured and massacred under the French rule according to the Algerian sources 1.5 million dead, while French officials estimated it at 350,000.

Algerians argue that the massacres should be named as genocide and France must apologise from the Algerians. However the French do not accept the claims.

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika says that French colonization of his country Algeria was a form of genocide.

In memoirs, some French officers have described torture of Algerians during the war, however France has never accepted its responsibility in tortures and massacres in Algeria. Paris says that the past should be left to historians. French President Jacques Chirac, upon harsh reactions to the law encouraging the good sides of the French colonial history, made the statement, "Writing history is the job of the historians, not of the laws." Writing history is the job of the historians" According to Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, "speaking about the past or writing history is not the job of the parliament."


The Algerian president Bouteflika said in a speech in Paris on 17 April 2006 "We no longer know whether we are Berbers (indigenous North Africans), Arabs, Europeans or French. France committed a genocide of Algerian identity during the colonial era. Colonisation brought the genocide of our identity, of our history, of our language, of our traditions."

Algeria first became a colony of France in 1830. After a war which ended in Algeria's independence in 1962, eight million Algerian residents were deprived of French nationality and hundreds of thousands of 'pieds noir' (French who settled in Algeria and were re-patriated at the end of the war) were forced home to a place which was not home.

Algeria called on France to apologise in 2005 for crimes committed during the colonial era. Bouteflika also urged Paris to admit its part in the massacres of 45,000 Algerians who took to the streets to demand independence as Europe celebrated victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. French authorities then responded by playing down the comments, urging "mutual respect".

JTW
12 October 2006

Rwanda Genocide Implemented by Western Countries

Rwanda Genocide

The genocide which occurred in Rwanda in 1994, in which majority-Hutu militias wiped out from 500,000 to a million of the minority-Tutsi population is well-known. The complicity and even help given the Hutu government by the UN and the French government is less well-known, however.
The prior history of Western Imperial intervention which led to the events culminating in the genocide are vital background knowledge for an understanding of those horrific events.

Photo of Rwanda Genocide. The France, Belgium, USA are the killers!



http://www.infoshop.org/wiki/index.php/Rwanda


The Rwandan Genocide stands out as historically significant, not only because of the sheer number of people murdered in such a short period of time, but also because of how inadequately the United Nations (particularly, its Western members such as the United States and France) responded. Despite intelligence provided before the killing began, and international news media coverage reflecting the true scale of violence as the genocide unfolded, most first-world countries including France, Belgium, the United States declined to intervene or speak out against the planned massacres.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide