The French President @EmmanuelMacron has said that he has no repentance for colonial abuses in Algeria.

When French invaded Algeria in 1830, they killed 825,000 Algerians from 1830-1875. The indigenous population dropped by one third during this time.

[1] https://twitter.com/FRANCE24/status/1351878533165957125

French Lt Col Lucien de Montagnac, an officer in French expeditionary force in Algeria, gave the true picture of “French civilization” in a letter to a friend dated March 15, 1843:

“This is how, my dear friend, we must make war against Arabs: kill all men over age of 15,

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take all their women and children, load them onto naval vessels, send them to Marquesas Islands or elsewhere. In one word, annihilate all who will not crawl beneath our feet like dogs.”
(“Lettres d’un soldat,” Plon, Paris, 1885; republished by Christian Destremeau, 1998)

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By 1845, the French military was implementing this heinous program. General Aimable Pélissier reported the massacre of a Berber tribe of 1,500 people who had taken refuge in a cave. The French troops commanded by Pélissier burned the Berbers alive including all the children.

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In the 19th century, France shipped off the skulls of 37 resistance fighters from Algeria to be stored at the Museum of Mankind in Paris. There are 18,000 skulls brought from across the world in the museum. It clearly depicts the French legacy of plunder and bloodshed.

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Moreover, the literacy rate of Algerians was considerably good before the French invasion in 1830. By the time of independence, it was reduced to a mere 10 percent.