Algeria’s Independence War: “France in search of its 1,500 missing soldiers”

The Secretary of State to the French defense minister in charge of war veterans’ file has received a written parliamentary question on the fate of 1,500 missing French soldiers who had participated as part of the French colonial armed forces against Algeria’s war effort for independence.

According to the text of the question drafted by the French MP Jean-Pierre Le Roch belonging to the Socialist Party (PS), who is a member of the Economic Commission of the French Parliament, those missing French soldiers who came to Algeria with other combat troops, to wage war in order to preclude Algeria’s accession to independence by sowing widespread death and destruction, are said to be among 1,000 to 1,500 soldiers.

This prompted their families to undertake a search to determine the circumstances of their disappearance and possibly retrieve their bodies and repatriate them to France.

This France which “demands” to know the truth about its missing soldiers by ignoring at the same time the fate of countless Algerian civilians, the Mujahideen, the Fedayeen who were unaccounted for during the horrendous and deliberate “suffocations by smoke” as well as during the so-called “chores timber” or the dropping of innocent Algerians from French Army helicopters does not want to recognize and to confess to its hideous colonial crimes.

Besides, it is in this sense that the Algerian Minister of Mujahedine or War Veterans, Mr Tayeb Zitouni, paid recently a working visit to France, the first of its kind, in a bid to resolve all outstanding issues between the two countries out of a duty of memory, truth and justice.