UN General Assembly
1960

139. What is becoming of France? And why is this so? Because this matter, which from the beginning could have found a normal solution in a fraternal atmosphere, has been purposely exploited because of the tergiversations of certain French governing circles which have made the problem worse. It is shocking for us who know what France has done over the centuries for the freedom of peoples throughout the world to see today that, because of the Algerian tragedy which, as I said earlier, hides other things from view, all those countries with systems similar to the French now hold up their heads and set themselves up as censors of France. Certain acts of racial discrimination, acts of brazen and outright oppression, the herding of human beings reduced to the level of animals, confiscation of land, which deprived some indigenous inhabitants of their livelihood when they had to abandon their land to foreigners, arbitrary and indefinite detention of political leaders whose names are not spoken here and whom nobody thinks of mentioning-these things are all forgotten straight away.