Algerian documentary film exposes crimes by the French colonial army
New confessions revealed that the French colonial army was aware of the serious danger on the Algerian native people, because the French colonial authorities prepared 6000 coffins in Beragan military base, as an anticipation of possible deaths.
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The new confessions were the subject of an Algerian documentary film by Djamel Wahab, presented Monday in Paris. Many official French figures including MPs attended the presentation.
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The” documentary film presented Algerian and French witnesses, who experienced the event and suffered from health complications. Some people from Adrar, South of Algeria, lost their sight due to radiation; children suffer from genetic abnormalities because their parents were subjected to the nuclear radiation.
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All these images mean that the French Ministry of Defence lied when it said “We have taken all the security measures before launching the nuclear tests”.
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Former soldiers in the colonial French army condemned those practices which killed and injured many innocent Algerians. Gaston Morizo, one of the former French soldiers was present at the bombing site in the Algerian Sahara 13 February 1960, “We were used as laboratory rats during the French nuclear test. We were 18 soldiers; they ordered us to stay in the bombing site without looking at the explosion. However, the French high officers had earlier fled and left us one week in the nuclear place”.
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Lucien Barve, an other former French soldier and one of the nuclear tests’ victims added, “I was ordered to bring back a machine which was left in the place in Ain Ikar in Tamenrasset, it was subjected to radiation that’s why I’m suffering a deformation in my face”. Lucien decided to show us his face and took off the bondage.
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The film presented an Algerian doctor who said, “Many children were born with congenital and abnormal defects”.