Algerian law declares France's colonisation a crimeFrance returned the remains of 24 Algerian resistance fighters in 2020France's colonisation of Algeria between 1830 and 1962 was marked by mass killings, large-scale deportations and ended in a bloody war of independence. Algeria says the war killed 1.5 million people, while French historians put the death toll much lower. Algeria's parliament has unanimously passed a law declaring France's colonisation of the North African state a crime, and demanding an apology and reparations. France's President Emmanuel Macron has previously acknowledged the colonisation of Algeria was a "crime against humanity" but has not offered an apology. In 2020, France returned the remains of 24 Algerian fighters who were killed resisting French colonial forces in the 19th Century.
