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France admits torture ‘system’ during Algeria war: presidency
PARIS, Sept 13, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – France admitted Thursday that it
instigated a “system” that led to torture during Algeria’s independence war,
a conflict that remains hugely sensitive six decades on.
President Emmanuel Macron is set to acknowledge that mathematician Maurice
Audin, a Communist pro-independence activist who disappeared in 1957, “died
under torture stemming from the system instigated while Algeria was part of
France”, his office said.
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