Algerian War Veterans: “We’ll not Forgive France Even If it apologizes”

Municipality of Kherrata in Bejaia (Eastern Algiers) embraced the celebrations that immortalized the 71st anniversary of May 8, 1945 massacres, through programming activities in the presence of Abderrahmane Ben Khalfa and the Finance Minister and organizing lectures that talked about the French historical massacres.

In this context, one of the War Veterans who witnessed these massacres after the foreign rabble forces wiped out his family in front of his eyes, said; “At a time when the revolutionary Archive of Kherrata Municipality was burned in the events of January 2011, and the lack of official statistics on the number of dead people, the place that was the scene of the crime which was committed by colonialism against humanity remains without concrete memory, except for what was sculpted by the French administration in glorification of its crimes, as the rocks of “Chaabet Lakhra” maintain to this day what was sculpted by the foreign rabble forces, which threw Algerians in Akrione valley which waters were colored with the blood of the martyrs.”

War Veteran “Said Alik”, 71, said; “I was 12 during the May, 8 Massacres. I woke up at 6:00 am on the impact of protests, as Algerians were lifting the flag and chanting “Algeria free and independent”, in anticipation of independence. Only one woman “Boulghezoua Mahdjouba” participated in the march, on May, 9 1945. She was ululating”, He cries adding; “But soon the situation was reversed, and one of the protesters in the march called “Cheibani El Kheyer” exited the row to the platform, then a French cop shot him to death, then he became the first martyr of the massacres in Kherrata, which raised the anger of the protesters who set fire with gasoline in the post center, and the protester who did this act survived after evacuation, but the conditions did not to stop at this point, and the foreign rabble forces intervened and shot people randomly and killed 20 civilians at once.”

“War veterans killed seven Frenchmen in response to the attacks that they waged on the population, and in front of the uncontrollable situation I escaped with my two brothers to the house, but the armed forces chased us. My mother told me to hide behind a small rock at the entrance of the house, while my father Moussa was ill. The armed forces violently raided our house, and my father difficulty stood up but they shot him dead.”