In the trail of the visit by Mr Tayeb Zitouni, Algerian Minister of Moujahidine or War Veterans, the National Organization of Mudjahidine urged the French government to apologize for colonial crimes in Algeria including the French nuclear tests conducted during the colonization period in the southern part of the country.
The National Secretariat of this Organization called in a statement for the opening of a file on the nefarious repercussions of the damaging nuclear tests conducted by France in the Algerian Sahara.
It also recalled that this is one of the positions of principle likely to open new prospects between Algeria and France on the way to establishing healthy and constructive relations in the interest of both peoples.
These positions also concern the wanted apologies that France must express to the Algerian people for the crimes it committed during the colonial period since 1830, including victims’ compensation and restitution of Algerian archives and the fate of thousands of Algerians who were unaccounted for during that somber colonial era
The Minister of Moudjahidine or War Veterans, Tayeb Zitouni, had said that his visit, which has a special character, as it is the first of its kind by a mudjahidine minister since independence to France, would focus on three main issues: the archives, Algerian missing people during the National Liberation War and compensation for the victims of nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara, stressing that it is high time that Algeria and France addressed seriously the outstanding issues.