The ferocity of the wars waged against libraries, throughout history, is no less ferocious than those waged against peoples. From the tragedies of burning the libraries of Baghdad, the city of the House of Wisdom, to the burning of the library of Algeria, all are crimes that reveal the filthy face of colonialism.
The history of the war on culture and libraries preserves the images of the ugliness practiced by the Mongols when they entered Baghdad, so they burned her books and threw her manuscripts into the Tigris River, turning the color of the water in which it flows into black from the color of ink. It also narrates the tragedy of the Library of Alexandria and the destruction, burning, and looting it suffered through the ages, in addition to what the libraries of Bosnia experienced by the racist fascist armies of Milosevic, many massacres that libraries were subjected to throughout history, as wars do not stop at killing, displacing, or torturing a person, but rather go to assassination Whatever it is that can be a form of dreaming of the future, the book brings to the fore the elements that make resistance to despair and restoration misery.
Colonial France: looting, extermination and enslavement
“When we arrived in the year 1830, there were more than a hundred schools in the city of Algeria, 86 in Constantine, and 50 in Tlemcen, as there were in each of the capital and Constantine from 6 to 7 schools. Secondary, as in Algeria, there were ten corners, which is a form of “university” in the Western concept.
A witness from its people testified, when the French colonization invaded Algeria, he found it and its people living in a society that respects books and libraries in particular and science in general. France made sure to ignore him, and impoverish him in every way.
On June 7, 1962, at 27:27, the hand of cultural criminality extended to place three bombs inside the university library. After a few hours, this historical landmark and its books, manuscripts, and documents turned into a mass of cold ashes. France-Soir newspaper writes, “The flames of fire devour the university library, as 600,000 books are burned.” Le Figaro newspaper testifies, saying: “500,000 books were burned from the university library’s funds.” In Algeria.” Likewise, Le Monde newspaper attests, saying: “Approximately 600,000 volumes and documents were bait for the flames of fire in the university library in Algeria.”
Today, June 7, the memory returns. The burning of the National Library in 1962 was not only a calamity for the Algerians, but was conclusive evidence of the criminality of France, which has always been hiding behind the civilized face, to reveal its true nature, as the “crime of the state” that affected part of Algeria’s memory remains a witness. On the settlement nature and the despicable mission of colonialism, which tried in every way to obliterate the history and identity of this country.
It is noteworthy that this day was demarcated by a presidential decision two years ago as “Library Day” and coincides with the meeting of the Presidential Memory Committee in Paris with its French counterpart, where the Algerian party intends to bring up French cultural crimes within the focus of discussion, including the crimes of burning and looting libraries and manuscripts, including those that extends back to before 1830.
The Algerian party intends to defend the Algerian cultural memory, as cultural crimes are considered more dangerous than weapon crimes, as they target the entity and memory of the nation, as colonialism destroyed more than 400 thousand books, so that this crime remains one of the most heinous crimes committed against the memory of peoples.
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