Half A Million “Harkis” And Their Families Are Still Loyal To France

Two deputies of the French National Assembly (parliament) presented a new bill, the fourth of its kind, to accuse Algeria of massacres, and revenge attacks against the Harki movement after the country’s independence, and argued that 500,000 members of the Harki’s movement and their children and families have remained loyal to France and its principles.

The new draft law was presented by MPs Fabrice Pran and Guy Tessier, and was mentioned in two articles only. 

It must be noted that the draft’s registration at the presidency of the French National Assembly was carried out on a carefully studied date, October 17, corresponding to the French police forces’ horrendous massacres at the behest of sinister Prefect Maurice Papon against peaceful pro-independence Algerian protesters in Paris on 17 October 1961.

The text of the bill, which was seen by “Echorouk”, claimed that some 70,000 Harkis were abandoned in Algeria by the French colonial authorities after the Evian agreements. 

“They were the victims of bloody attacks and acts of retaliation by the Algerian nationalists”, it claimed. 

“The groups are fully integrated today in France and French society,” it said, stressing that half a million (500,000) of the Harkis and their children are still loyal to France and its principles.

The draft law is in two articles only, the first stated that the French nation recognizes its responsibility in the long-term neglect of  the Harkis after the independence of Algeria and the alleged massacres they and their families were subjected to. 

The French nation must offset the material and moral damage inflicted on this group, the MPs claimed in the draft law.

As a recall, several bills related to the national war of liberation and hundreds of written and verbal questions have so far been presented by French MPs in France at a time when the Parliament of Algeria has been sitting idly by and refusing any counter initiative with the aim  of formally criminalizing the brutal French colonial era in our country.