One Algerian warfare erases one other | EUROtoday

VHere is a thriller that appears fairly incidental in France, distant and derisory within the face of the questions of the hour: why has Algeria cultivated, for many years, the memorial escalation towards France? Why can we consistently evoke the warfare of decolonization, History as an insurmountable legal responsibility, the demand for apologies made to the colonizer? We get misplaced in hypotheses that give in to precision or facility.

Some even declare, earlier than shedding curiosity in it, that we’re utilizing this well-known manner of erasing the catastrophe of the current or its failures in Algeria by resorting to the disguise of the “epic past” and the guilt-tripping of France. What might be extra handy, in truth, it’s stated, than to hyperlink the state of Algeria in the present day to the France of yesterday? The obligation to recollect…