Algeria demands confession of French “nuclear crimes”
Algeria has demanded that France officially acknowledge its responsibility for “nuclear crimes” committed in the former colony as hostilities continue between the two Mediterranean neighbours.
According to Anadolu Agency on 13 February, a day that marks the anniversary of the first French nuclear test on Algerian soil, the speaker of Algeria’s lower house, Ibrahim Boughali, said: “We demand with one voice an official recognition from France on its full responsibility for these nuclear crimes.”
The Sri Lanka Guardian reports that radioactive material continues to leak from the Sahara desert mountains where 17 tests were carried out during the 1950s and 60s.
Anadolu, Sri Lanka Guardian
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