France's reckoning with colonial past reviewed in Algeria report

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France's reckoning with colonial past reviewed in Algeria report

A historian tasked by President Emmanuel Macron with assessing how France deals with its colonial past in Algeria -- a hugely sensitive issue six decades after Algerians won independence -- will deliver his recommendations on Wednesday. The atrocities committed by France in its attempt to quash Algeria's bid for independence, as well as by the nationalists who waged an eight-year liberation war, continue to strain relations between the two count…