Algeria expects France to apologise for colonial past
An Algerian woman holds a drawing of a resistance fighter as she mourns over one of the national flag-draped coffins containing the remains of 24 Algerian men decapitated during the French occupation of the country, at the Moufdi-Zakaria palace in Algiers, Algeria. – EPA pic, July 5, 2020.
ALGERIA is waiting for an apology for France’s colonial occupation of the North African country, the president said, expressing hope that his opposite number in Paris, Emmanuel Macron, would build on recent conciliatory overtures. A global re-examination of the legacy of colonialism has been unleashed by the May killing of unarmed black American George Floyd by a white police officer, which sparked mass protests around the world.
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