Vers un dénouement méritoire !

Towards a meritorious outcome!

Algerian-French Joint Committee

The talks on the restitution of the masses of parts inherent to the national memory, deported by colonial France, remain today, contrary to the promptitude and diligence of the colonial aggression in July 1830, at the slow pace of the snail’s stammering . What is the French political-historical apparatus planning in response to the express request of the Algerian Committee? We must give back to Caesar what belongs to him! Never has a national panel responsible for memorial issues been decisive and firm like the one previously set up by the President of the Republic Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune. Certainly, having suffered an intermittent delay as to the deadline for the submission of its roadmap as understood and set in the instruction of the President of the Republic, but the intrinsic practical scope or even the exogenous substance of the demands formulated by the said Committee turns out to be thoughtful. Because it contains an aggregate of precious objects of value inherent to the personality, moral and physical integrity of the Algerian State through its historical trajectory even before the colonial aggression in July 1830 by the French armed forces.
The request for the restitution of panes linked to national memory illustrated by its precious valuables dating back to the period of the armed resistance of Emir Abdelkader, its clothing and weapons of defense, documents retracing the history of the Ottoman Algeria, manuscripts, colonial archives deported on the eve of our independence, etc., is placed before the Committee of French historians supposed to work in collaboration with its similar Algerian side, by the transmission of this non-negotiable selective list relating of our cultural and documentary heritage which the President of the Republic considers as acquired through the recognition of the origin of its valuable objects as to their Algerian identity falling under national sovereignty.
Their detention in France has no historical weight or cultural synonym in the minds of the French citizen. On the contrary, they bear witness to a period which shames the French of today as well as their ancestors! The old slogan of the French Republic, namely, Liberty, Fraternity and Equality, was considered internally, but externally, in Africa and Asia, indiscriminate violence is being used against the peoples
indigenous. Also, in the imagination, this space conquered with combativeness constitutes an eye-catching clutter linked to a historical amalgam on the front of the French Republic. At the same time, History remembers without fail that our valiant martyrs during the popular resistance illustrated by thawrat Zaatcha, that of Fatma N’soumer, that of Cheikh Ahedad, that of Cheikh El Mokrani, the genocide of May 8, 1945, etc., without however revealing the dejection of entire villages and the National Revolution of 1954, are the consequences of unfortunate chronological events engraved in immaculate blood in the mind of every Algerian given that no family or tribe is spared by this barbarity savage of the French colonial armed forces. The cost is excessive. The price remains undefined. Forgiveness is not enough. The victory of the Evian negotiations crowned by the ceasefire on March 19, 1962, and recovery of national independence on July 5, 1962 following a massive vote determining and/or consecrating the freedom of Algerians to dispose of their dear land and constitute their own independent State, produce to this day and forever the joy and glory of the Algerians.
Moreover, sixty years after independence, the demand for compensation for violations of human rights, damage, harm, wrongs and damage committed during colonization, still remains relevant. By way of illustration, in the North as in the South, savagery is fundamentally anchored. It appears on the ground and from countless commemorative plaques. The nuclear tests in the depths of the Sahara and the fire of the University Library of Algiers are edifying examples.
Talks should by no means be the preserve of a closed circle. The Algerian people and native professionals deserve to be informed of all the initiatives taken, the debate of which must be open in the heavy media and by hosting professional meetings. Any decision taken, without the knowledge of the people, is about complicating this historical trajectory based on turmoil and procrastination having already exhausted the minds of both sides.
In terms of skills, can we see an extension to this Committee at the internal level in terms of organization and functioning? Because, the DGAN in its current posture requires a professional facelift with, as a bonus, new quality attributions, its main focus should be not only initiating institutional overhaul but control over the legislative and regulatory arsenal; its extension into a basic vertical and horizontal organization in an executive capacity, particularly at the level of local authorities. Then, the relevant information will come back to preserve the truth acquired on an authentic document listed and located that can be consulted remotely or on site.
For this, the Algerian will always have the immense joy of remembering its glorious past and valuing its courageous martyrs.
In conclusion, does the recent request for the restitution of precious objects of value testifying to the existing historical trajectory of Algeria before colonization presented by the committee of Algerian historians constitute a response as a practical exercise to the anthology memory questions developed by the eminent historian Benjamin Stora on the instructions of Mr. Macron. In terms of legitimate rights recognized by UN bodies or professional corporations, Algeria remains enormously aggrieved. So the fight continues!
Hama Nadir