The repatriation comes amid a global reexamination of the legacy of colonialism.
Algeria prepared Sunday to bury the remains of 24 resistance fighters repatriated after more than a century and a half, as it marks the 58th anniversary of its independence from France.
The coffins, draped with the national flag, are expected to leave Palace of Culture, where they have been on display since their arrival on Algerian soil on Friday, for the cemetery around 10:00 am . The remains, once viewed as war trophies by French colonial officers, had been stored since the 19th century in a Paris museum.
Their restitution has been seen as a sign of a thaw in relations between Algeria and the former colonial power, marked since independence by recurrent tensions.
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