A national conference at the University of Blida 2 to commemorate the 63rd Anniversary of the French nuclear explosions in Reggan

This morning, 02/12/2023, the rector of the University of Blida 2 Lounici Ali, Prof. Khaled Ramoul opened the national conference under the slogan Our memory groans in Reggan and refuses to forget, at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 63rd Anniversary of the French nuclear explosions in the Algerian desert, on February 13, 1960.
The event was organized under the aegis of the wali of the Wilaya of Blida and the supervision of the director of the Moudjahidine and dependents, the director of religious affairs and wakfs, the wilaya Moudjahidine museum, as well as Bendjalloul cultural association.
The above mentioned conference took place in the presence of the vice-rector in charge of external relations and cooperation, Dr. Sarah Kouider Rabah, the director of the Moudjahidine and dependants of the Wilaya of Blida, the director of religious affairs and wakfs of the Wilaya of Blida, a representative of the Wilaya Assembly of Blida, the head of Bendjalloul cultural and religious association of the Wilaya of Blida, the director of the wilaya Moudjahidine
museum in Blida, as well as the director of the Museum of Reggan.
The rector stressed the importance and the need to commemorate historical events, in particular the commemoration of February 13, 1960 linked to the Reggan attacks in the Algerian desert, the first of their kind in the world.
Moreover, he declared that these explosions reflect the ugliness and aggression of French colonialism and its brutal criminal acts against the Algerian people, where 150 hostages were used as experiments to study the effects of nuclear radiation on the human body. Prof. Ramoul added that the effects of the French nuclear explosions in the Algerian desert still testify today on the brutal and criminal act. He added that these attacks revealed the false role that France claimed to defend and advocate for the values ​​of human rights in order to eradicate these values ​​in the Algerian desert.
For her part, the director of the Moudjahidine of the wilaya of Blida said that these explosions against the Algerian People are yet another witness to the aggressiveness and ugliness of colonialism, which is a series of series of crimes
perpetrated by France against the Algerian People, from whom the population of Reggan still suffers today. The speaker also called on the audience, especially the students, to preserve the national memory by recalling the heroism of the struggle of the martyrs and the Moudjahidine. Likewise, she invited the inspiration of the values ​​of struggle to continue the message of construction.
As for the president of the conference, Prof. Youcef Tlemssani, the latter confirmed that the Algerian desert was not only a field of nuclear experiments similar to the attacks of Reggan of February 13, 1963, but that it rather served as
a field of experiments for biological and chemical weapons, such as the chemical and biological experiments at Oued Ennamous in the wilaya of Béchar.
The same speaker urged participants and students to make this historic conference an opportunity to draw inspiration from these painful events and facts, and which remains a space whose purpose is to encourage research and to delve into national memory.