{"id":4135,"date":"2025-12-03T02:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/can-former-colonial-powers-be-held-accountable-for-past-atrocities\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T02:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:35:28","slug":"can-former-colonial-powers-be-held-accountable-for-past-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/can-former-colonial-powers-be-held-accountable-for-past-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Can former colonial powers be held accountable for past atrocities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf said Algeria\u2019s experience under French rule highlighted the need for compensation.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>African leaders want colonial-era abuses recognised and criminalised.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria says a legal framework would ensure reparations are neither a gift nor a favour.<\/p>\n<p>So, how could former colonial powers be held accountable?<\/p>\n<p>And can the cost of those atrocities be measured?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Dareen Abughaida<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jacques Reland \u2013 Senior research fellow in European affairs<\/p>\n<p>Paul Beaver \u2013 Former soldier and defence analyst<\/p>\n<p>Peter Nielsen \u2013 Former commander of NATO\u2019s Force Integration Unit in Lithuania<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf said Algeria\u2019s experience under French rule highlighted the need for compensation. African leaders want colonial-era abuses recognised and criminalised. Algeria says a legal framework would ensure reparations are neither a gift nor a favour. So, how could former colonial powers be held accountable? And can the cost of those atrocities &#8230; <a title=\"Can former colonial powers be held accountable for past atrocities?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/can-former-colonial-powers-be-held-accountable-for-past-atrocities\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Can former colonial powers be held accountable for past atrocities?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}