Electric Koran
Richard Vinen, 7 June 2001
Services Spéciaux Algérie 1955-57: Mon témoignage sur la torture
by Paul Aussaresses.
Perrin, 198 pp., frs 99, May 2001,2 262 01761 1 Show More
by Paul Aussaresses.
Perrin, 198 pp., frs 99, May 2001,
Appelés en Algérie: La Parole confisquée
by Claire Mauss-Copeaux.
Hachette, 332 pp., frs 140, March 1999,2 01 235475 0 Show More
by Claire Mauss-Copeaux.
Hachette, 332 pp., frs 140, March 1999,
“... practise both torture and murder. Three quarters of the forty or so conscripts interviewed by Claire Mauss-Copeaux witnessed episodes of torture and at least three of them admitted practising it. One of the testimonies she cites inverts the conventional wisdom that conscripts were passive bystanders in a war conducted by professionals: ‘I saw a kid ... ”
