Farouk Ksentini: “Over 9000 terrorists surrender since 2005â€
Number of repentant terrorists since the launch of the National Reconciliation Act in Algeria reaches more than 9000, The chairman of the consultative commission in charge of the protection of human rights, Farouk Ksentini, says.
- This figure represents the overwhelming proportion of the total number of terrorists who have joined terrorist groups.
- The majority of repentant terrorists handed over their arms, while others fled with many weapons, thus contributing to the impoverishment of terrorist groups from armament.
- The chairman of the consultative commission in charge of the protection of human rights, Farouk Ksentini,said the National Reconciliation program and the Charter for Civil Concord by President Bouteflika succeeded by 95%, as various regions noticed a quick return of security that was absent throughout years.
- “Algeria sought from the beginning to help its children through legislation of laws that ensure their protection, and reintegration in the society”, he adds.
- Ksentini did not refute the hypothesis of the existence of hidden foreign hands that sought to dump Algeria in the spiral of bloodshed and internal strife, thus did not hesitate in pumping arms to these terrorist groups in order to kill innocent people and Algerian citizens.
- “95% of families that are victims of terrorism during the black decade, concerned with compensations received their rights, and only 5% refuse to receive compensation. Government cannot force them to accept or reject compensations. There are no exclusions of files of missing people.
- The period of the last two years noticed a large number of repentant terrorists, because of conviction of the futility of terrorism, as well as continued work by government to leave the armed activity and reintegrate in the community.