Yet Another French Law Extolling Treacherous Harkis!

The French parliament introduced a bill that glorifies the “harkis”, their families, and traitors of all kinds during the glorious war of national liberation. And thus, the question that must be asked as a result is the following, did the Bundestag (German Parliament) glorify the French who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II? It didn’t of course.

This law aims to award compensation to these traitors for services to colonial France and recognition on its part to have killed, tortured, and raped their compatriots in Algeria.

Indeed, a draft law on the recognition of the responsibility of France in the forsaking and killing of harkis, signed by 84 French MPs from various political backgrounds, was referred to the Commission of Defense and Armed Forces on April 5, 2016.

This proposal stipulates in its articles that quote: “the French nation recognizes the responsibility of the French state in the abandonment and killing of harkis and their families and will repair the moral and material damage suffered by the Harkis who have been abandoned and massacred in Algeria with their families or relegated to makeshift camps in France”, unquote.

In addition, charges that could result from the application of this law for French social security agencies are duly compensated by the creation of an additional tax to the rights mentioned in sections 575, 575A and 403 of the General taxes Code.

To recap, the so-called “sacrifice” of harkis and their families was formally recognized by the French Republic through law No. 94-448 of 11 June 1994 on repatriated former members of supplemental training and assimilated and law No. 2005-158 of 23 February 2005 expressing to the latter the acknowledgment of colonial France.

Nevertheless, the harki community wants France to go even  further, by officially recognizing the abandonment and killing of 70,000 harkis, about 400,000 auxiliaries who were committed alongside France, and their families and their subsequent confinement after the war in makeshift camps in various parts of France.

For the record, the former president of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, recognized the responsibility of France by declaring on April 14, 2012 in the Rivesaltes camp near Perpignan: “France was bound to protect the harkis’ history, it did not. Then, France bears this responsibility before History. “

This bill is a continuation of a number of laws adopted by French Parliament since the hard-won independence of Algeria, as those devoted to the “glorification” of heinous French colonialism, the treacherous harkis, the terrorists of the OAS …

These vile laws all have paternalistic overtones of some sections of a still nostalgic French political class about the so-called “Algeria of Daddy” as the latter haven’t yet digested the independence of Algeria, which has remained, up to now, stuck in their gizzards.