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People have Algeria’s national flag in Algiers. File picture
Algeria suggests France is about to return the stays of 24 fighters who were killed resisting French colonial forces in the 19th Century.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune disclosed the transfer at a army ceremony on Thursday.
The skulls of some of the fighters have been on show in a museum in Paris.
Algeria gained independence from France in 1962 right after a bloody seven-12 months war, which finished extra than a century of a colonial rule.
President Emmanuel Macron has described the colonisation of the North African country as a “criminal offense towards humanity”.
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Mr Macron has also expressed a want for French-Algerian relations to be ahead-on the lookout inspite of historical enmities and earlier tragedies.
What did the Algerian president say?
Talking on Thursday, President Tebboune claimed that “within just a several hours Algerian navy planes will fly in from France… with the continues to be of 24 [members] of the well-liked resistance”.
He explained that some of the continues to be belonged to leaders of the resistance motion.
Among them was Sheikh Bouzian, who was captured by the French in 1849, then shot and decapitated.
President Tebboune mentioned the resistance fighters “had been deprived of their all-natural and human appropriate to be buried for far more than 170 a long time”.
The skulls of approximately 40 Algerian fighters had been taken to France as trophies in the 19th Century and later place on display screen at the National Museum of Purely natural Record in Paris.
Algerian and French historians and intellectuals have been campaigning for yrs to return these skulls to Algeria.
