French Historian Criticizes The Programmed Closure Of Colonial Archives Pertaining To Algeria

French historian, Gilles Manceron, stated that the French Ministry of Armed Forces should review its policy regarding the management of its archives, and estimated that the continuation of the current situation is no longer justified from all political and legal aspects, as it contradicts the most basic fundamentals of human rights and the values upon which French democracy was built.

In a study published by the French historian in the blog of the French newspaper “Mediapart” at the end of the week, it was stated that “the right of citizens to freely access public archives is a fundamental right of democracy, based on numerous texts indicating this, foremost among them the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789.”

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