Re: French in Algeria: Inhumanity exposed

[jenyan1 <jenyan1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 May 2001 gdunkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> You can look at the political and organizational mistakes of the National
> Liberation Front, but I think they should be balanced and compared to
> the great political mistake of the French Communist Party in Algeria.
> (While we are at it, we should think about the political mistakes of the
> French Socialist Party, one of whose rising stars at the time -- Francois
> Mitterrand -- was interior minister and Gen. Aussaresses' boss.
>
Thanks for your post. But might not political "mistakes" of the magnitude
committed by the PCF during the Algerian war, made knowingly as they were
(given, for example that Cesaire and others from the French Empire broke
with the party over its mishandling of the national question), more
accurately be labeled political crimes?
J.Enyang