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Amnesty International Press Release, May 3, 2001
"Services Speciaux, Algerie, 1955-1957 (Special
Services, Algeria, 1955-1957)," a book written by
French General Aussaresses, again exposed the mas-
sacres perpetrated by the French in Algeria. The 83-
year-old Aussaresses devoted copious space to the
killings, torture, executions without trial, and murders
made to look like suicide that he either ordered or wit-
nessed. In the report to the side printed in Le Monde,
Aussaresses said that the French police units known as
"death squads" carried out systematic torture, and
that these torture and killings were carried out under
order and with the full knowledge of the political au-
thorities. Perhaps most interestingly, he said that he
felt absolutely no pangs of conscience.
Le Monde, May, 2001
Associated Press, January 3, 1997 Middle East, June, 2001
BBC News, May 14, 2001
