Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune opened a new field for building the future, by rewriting history and forming a public awareness of the reality of colonialism.

The Algerian president announced that the number of martyrs killed by the French army in Algeria reached 5.5 million over 132 years.

Can a world that claims civilization tolerate a country that killed half of Algeria's population during its occupation period?

Is it sufficient to apologize for that?

President Tebboune explained that the French army was targeting the ethnic cleansing of Algeria by killing the indigenous people and bringing in strangers to occupy their lands and loot their property, and that this constitutes a crime against humanity, and that the brutal and bloody suppression of the French occupation will remain a stain on the forehead of the colonial powers, which are crimes that are not subject to statute of limitations.

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune pledged to hold the French state accountable for its crimes in Algeria, and to recover the skulls of the resistance leaders, which are in the Human Museum in Paris.

This speech is expressed by the Algerian president by all Algerians, and he knows the way to their hearts, and that he thus obtains their support and love, as they want that strong speech that opens a new field for the formation of foreign relations on the basis of restoring historical rights, and holding France accountable for its crimes.

Shaping global public opinion

But the question that we can ask here is: Can we form a global public opinion against the massacres committed by the colonial powers during the past three centuries, and to restore the rights of African and Asian countries that were subject to colonialism.

Can a world that claims civilization tolerate a country that killed half of Algeria's population during its occupation period?

Is it sufficient to apologize for that?

Rewriting history and revealing the facts could constitute a new stage in the history of humanity, and it could contribute to reaching a new set of values ​​and human rights that can be agreed upon to protect.

The issue of the Algerian martyrs must be turned into a global issue that is adopted by the media, writers and free scholars in the whole world .. France’s crime in Algeria is not an issue between Algeria and France, but a global issue with which all the free people must interact, and declare their rejection of crimes against humanity.

Also, this case can contribute to building a new global culture that affirms the sanctity of human life, and holds accountable anyone who commits a crime against humanity.

Influencing French public opinion

Revealing the facts of the massacres committed by France in Algeria could also contribute to the formation of public opinion in France that pressures the French government, compels it to apologize and offer compensation to Algeria, and return the skulls of the resistance leaders to be buried in Algeria with the appropriate honor.

If de Gaulle had ever had the courage to withdraw the French army from Algeria after he realized the determination of the Algerians to resist until achieving independence, then the people of France need a new leader who has the intelligence of de Gaulle, and who understands the danger of the continuing hostility with the people of Algeria

But the issue should not stop there. The French people should base their relations with other peoples on the principles of respecting the independence of states, respecting Islam and its symbols, and learning that the crimes of colonialism will stand as a barrier without establishing exchange of interests between states, which are relations that can befit countries. In the twenty-first century.

These relationships cannot be established while the collective memory is charged with scenes of bloodshed, murder, massacre, sabotage and destruction carried out by the French army.

Therefore, an apology for those crimes, and recognition of the shame it inflicted on France, could be in the interest of the French people themselves.

If de Gaulle had had the courage one day to withdraw the French army from Algeria after he realized the determination of the Algerians to continue the resistance until achieving independence, then the people of France need a new leader who has the intelligence of de Gaulle, and who understands the seriousness of the continuing hostility with the people of Algeria.

The issue also does not concern the people of Algeria alone, but it concerns every person who wants to build a future in which these massacres will not be repeated, and in which the human right to life, the independence of states, and the dignity of peoples are respected.

Therefore, the people of France must realize that their ability to build their relationships with peoples in the future must begin by reviewing their black history and abandoning racism and arrogance against humanity.

But is there a possibility to influence French public opinion?

The revolution in communication opens up a wide field for us to uncover the facts and influence the attitudes of the masses.

The year 2016 witnessed the launch of an electronic campaign to pressure the French government to return the skulls of martyrs for burial in Algeria, and Le Monde newspaper adopted this campaign, which was signed by a number of French historians.

This campaign contributed to the return of the skulls of 24 martyrs, but there are still many skulls that the Algerian people are looking forward to burying in Algerian soil.

Surpassing Nazi crimes

The people of France must also rewrite their history. Nazi Germany occupied France, and Algerian fighters contributed to the liberation of France from the Nazi occupation. But are France’s crimes less cruel and brutal than those of the Nazis?

The Algerian historian, Mustafa Nouaiser, answers this question by saying: When we open France’s record in Algeria, we will not be surprised, but shocked .. France not only beheaded but also burned people, and killed the Algerians with smoke, and that some historians have compared what France did in Algeria with the crimes of Adolf Hitler, they found that the crimes of France exceeded those of the Nazis.

That is why historian Mustafa Nuweiser called for this brutal type of crime to be brought to the attention of world public opinion.

We adopt the call of Mustafa Nwaiser, and we believe that the media must clarify the facts to humanity in order to be able to build its future on new foundations, and agree to punish everyone who commits crimes against humanity.

If America, Britain and France built their alliance in World War II against Nazi Germany on the basis that they were committing crimes against humanity, then France’s crime in Algeria is no less brutal and cruel than the crimes of the Nazis.

Study European Journalism

Rewriting the history of the French colonization of Algeria and the massacres committed by the French army needs to study the European and American press, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when we can discover many facts.

Where the French journalist Michel Abbate says that in 1854 the British, German and French newspapers criticized the behavior of the French army against the Muslims, describing it as being at the level of barbarism.

But we can also discover from that study that the French press did not enjoy the freedom that France pretends to be, and was unable to reveal the facts about the massacres committed by the French army in Algeria and in Africa, and that it was unable to fulfill the French people's right to know, and that it adopted the discourse. The French official, who is characterized by racism and justification of colonialism, is a result of the responsibility of the white man in civilizing humanity .. That urbanization was the annihilation of Algerian villages, and the beheading of Algerians and displayed in the Museum of Man.

There are also many facts that the world needs to know, the most important of which are: What kinds of weapons were used in the annihilation of the Algerians?

There is evidence that France used chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction and extermination.

These weapons were the most important results of European urbanization, the industrial revolution, and the enlightenment project that dazzled the Westernized Arab intellectuals.

Torture

One of the results of the French civilization was the use of torture in Algeria, and Macron officially recognized that the French state allowed the use of torture during the war in Algeria .. And this crime against humanity is added to the crimes of France, and reveals the level of civilization, civilization and enlightenment that it has reached.

This means that France’s crimes in Algeria are not illustrated by the number of martyrs, which reached 5.5 million Algerians, as announced by the Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune .. But there are many Algerians who were subjected to torture, exile, displacement and looting of property.

Millions of women and children were displaced after the French army plundered their possessions and expelled them from their villages. They were forced to seek refuge in the mountains, but he did not leave them, so he exterminated them using fire and smoke.

In light of this, we must begin the stage of resistance with history, in which media professionals, media outlets and researchers in all scientific fields, research centers and universities participate in it, so that facts about the history of colonialism and the crimes that it committed are revealed, educating our people, and motivating them to continue the struggle to build the future, and to be free from Intellectual and cultural dependence on the West.

History can become the most important weapon of resistance and building the future, and the history of the Algerian struggle against French colonialism can light the way for us to steadfastness, regardless of the enemy's strength and cruelty.