Read the account and then you decide

“And with documentary testimony that thousands - some say as many as 12,000 - men and women have been "disappeared" by a government that claims to be fighting "international terrorism", Algeria's military-backed government will find it hard ever again to win sympathy in the West. A police officer who was in charge of the Algiers' city police armoury has described to The Independent how his colleagues killed prisoners in cold blood, how police torturers suffocated prisoners with acid-soaked rags after tearing out their nails and raping them with bottles. A 30-year old Algiers policewoman has told of how she watched prisoners - at the rate of 12 a day - tied half-naked to ladders in the Cavignac police station in Algiers while, screaming and pleading for mercy, salt water was pumped into their stomachs until they agreed, blindfolded, to sign confessions.”

“[She] admitted to signing false death certificates" and reports of a prison  called the "killing room" by the police woman as well.

(from an Article by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK reported)

http://www.missionislam.com/conissues/algeria.htm

A “terrible war” against (suspected) “terrible” (Muslim) ‘rebels’. Yet one wonders why soldiers with fake beards go into villages and commit atrocities that are later suspected acts of their own doing. The witness is one of them. Why would he tell this story, except as “whistleblowers” do - often to alleviate their own guilt and free their minds from the horror they are witness to, so that just maybe they can sleep nights?

Why can’t the police and army “maintain [their] honor”? Simply because they are thugs, criminals, and use torture to force confessions.

The article describes police and army as ‘agents’ and then expects the public to believe that what is being said about the rebels is true, or that the atrocities said to be committed by rebels are surely not the work of others e.g. the government and its henchmen?

It’s not a dirty war, only, it’s a propaganda war.

J. D-N