> Sixty years on, relatives seek decent funerals for child victims of French 'Harki' camps / V000_8QG6
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Sixty years on, relatives seek decent funerals for child victims of French 'Harki' camps / V000_8QG6
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Nearly 60 years ago, a number of babies, toddlers and children died during their spell in a 'Harki' camp run by the French army in the south of the country. Harkis are native Muslim Algerians who served as auxiliaries in the French Army during the Algerian War of Independence from 1954 to 1962.
The children were often given a perfunctory burial - at night, wrapped in a towel, deprived of the dignity of a proper ceremony. Over the next 50 years, the makeshift cemeteries hiding dozens of bodies were left untended. Now families of former Harkis, through associations and their own personal initiatives, are trying to bring the dead out of anonymity to give them a funeral they "deserve". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES
