Electric Koran

Richard Vinen

  • Services Spéciaux Algérie 1955-57: Mon témoignage sur la torture by Paul Aussaresses
    Perrin, 198 pp, frs 99.00, May 2001, ISBN 2 262 01761 1
  • Appelés en Algérie: La Parole confisquée by Claire Mauss-Copeaux
    Hachette, 332 pp, frs 140.00, March 1999, ISBN 2 01 235475 0

In 1957, Louisette Ighilahriz, a member of the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in Algeria, was captured by French paratroopers. She was tortured and repeatedly raped. Until a French Army doctor arranged for her to be transferred to hospital and then to prison, her only hope was that her guards might be careless enough to leave her with the means of killing herself.

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[*] La Découverte, 204 pp., 95 frs, 8 February, 2 7071 3358 2.