Distance from atrocities makes foreign condemnation of French torture easy

Evidence

As other countries have discovered since (not least Britain), it is always easier to be coolly censorious about the excesses of the forces of order when one is happily far removed from the tragic sights of the outrages, and unaffected by the horrors of mutilated children and pretty girls. Nevertheless, in March, disclosure of the “suicide” first of Ben M’hidi then of Ali Boumendjel provoked a major outrage in France. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 730

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