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Former French General on Trial for Algeria Torture Crimes
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
Islam Online & News Agencies

General Paul Assauresses has said he will not be constrained to apologize for actions that took place in an entirely different moral environment, BBC reported.

PARIS
A former French general went on trial Monday on charges of "apologizing for war crimes," tied to his published descriptions of tortures and summary executions he and other French military committed during Algeria's 1954-1962 struggle for independence.

The three-day trial against General Paul Assauresses is expected to feature testimony from an array of historians, former military officers and judicial experts, news agencies reported.

Aussaresses, 83, wrote a memoir confessing his role in the death of prisoners during the Algerian war of independence.

He faces a maximum penalty of five years in jail and a 300,000 franc - 45,000 euro - fine, BBC's online news service reported.
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