A new initiative to complete National Reconciliation in Algeria

The judicial assistance cell for the implementation of the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation suggested to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika a new initiative to complete the process.

• The cell told Echorouk the issue is still facing hindrances though the Charter’s implementation goes back to five years ago.
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• It said it still receives hundreds of complaints about the implementation describing it as “incorrect and selective.”
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• According to the cell, all the measures mentioned in the Charter are clear and do not need any explanation.
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• “It’s time to complete the Reconciliation process to fill the gaps and integrate categories which found themselves uninvolved in this law.”
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• The cell suggested 15 points. Instructions were sent to provincial committees in charge of compensations ordering them to accept files of missing people or terrorists killed in clashes with security forces but their death certificates were not issued.
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• The cell also suggested settling the problem of statements which were not given to missing people and eliminated terrorists’ families.  
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• The initiative will decide in people accused of terror-related acts who are have the right to benefit from the National Reconciliation’s measures.
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• The revision of compensation laws for terrorism victims is suggested. The cell proposed to examine the issue of all the dismissed policemen and form a committee to study the issue of desert detainees.
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• It also suggested using the DNA to treat the issue of children born among terrorists to settle their situation and register them in the civil state department.
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• The cell did not forget the issue of women raped by terrorists. It asked for finding a solution and settling the situation of persons who were acquitted after they had stayed in prisons for different periods.