Ksentini: “France will not compensate Algerians because of obsolescence”

Head of the Algerian League for Human Rights, Boudjemaa Ghachir, criticized on Monday the statements of the attorney Farouk Ksentini, who has ruled out the possibility that France will compensate Algerians over the war crimes it committed, by virtue of limitations.

Ghashir told Echorouk that what France has done is a crime against humanity that can never become obsolete over the years.
“If crimes are classified against humanity, they are not subject to prescription, and it is the right of the Algerian people to request an apology, as well as compensation if it wants that, to the fact that France has already recognized the extensive looting of Algerians’s properties, once they entered Algeria in 1832,including the precious gold coins, which were the property of the rich families, including the family of Hussein Day, as well as crimes against humanity that have been committed by France for 132 years of colonialism, for example, the holocaust of Dahra in mostghanem and in other areas, not to mention the cultural dependency on colonialism, and its
repercussions on all aspects of life”, he added.

Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Promotion of Human Rights considered, in a statement on the national radio on Monday, that asking France to compensate Algerians is useless, arguing that the issue fell by virtue of limitations, which is supported by international law.

“What can be done today is just pushing France to recognize its crimes that were committed against the Algerian people, as a symbolic step with a historic meaning, as quoted by Algeria news agency, which was denied by Boudjemaa Ghashir arguing that the French law punished everyone who denies the nazi holocaust, without putting it under limitaton. How does the Africans get international recognition if they were exploited as slaves in past centuries, to this issue has become a debate which is widely discussed at the international level. Algerians should ask the United Nations to establish a special tribunal to prosecute French colonialism, by virtue of the International Criminal Court, which is newly created”.