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President, who once acknowledged French colonisation as a ‘crime against humanity’, rules out formal apologies.
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Can France move on from colonial past in Algeria without apology?
President Emmanuel Macron is setting up a Truth Commission to scrutinise French colonial rule over Algeria.
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