c/europe · u/schizoidman@lemm.ee · 50 points
“The day of 8 May, which is a day of national pride, you have French elected officials who go to Algeria to participate in self-flagellation and humiliation,” said Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the right-wing Les Republicains
u/vegetvs@kbin.earth · 0 points
Never forget, "history is written by the victors".
u/Saleh@feddit.org · 8 points
The French and British cracked down with brutal colonial oppression on the colonial liberation movements that demand liberty and justice for them too. Already during World War II British colonialism was extremely murderous, killing about 1.5-3 Million people in Burma by starvation.
During Algerias struggle for independence until 1962 France killed about a million Algerians. The French colonialization of Algeria is also special in that it was settler colonialism with the goal to establish a French-European population and ethnically cleanse the native Algerians, which goes beyond only stealing resources and enslaving the natives.
Both France and the UK used WW II and the memory of it to whitewash themselves as morally superior liberators and the working through and acknowledging of their colonial regimes including the various genocides they committed remains lackluster.
u/synapse1278@lemmy.world · 2 points
Laurent Wauquiez is such a nauseating character.
*À bas le Wauquisme !*
u/Kissaki@feddit.org · 1 points
I'm surprised they were and even were able to be so active in colonization right after being occupied by Germany.
u/Obelix@feddit.org · 1 points
I really do not get why countries are still in denial of atrocities they did years ago. Everybody who participated in that massacre should be dead 80 years later, the world knows about it, so why deny it?