UN General Assembly
1960

18. A year has now passed since I spoke to you. It was a cruel year for Algeria, and a most distressing year for the human conscience everywhere. The war in Algeria is raging more furiously than before. Loss of life — whether it be French or Algerian — is mounting with every day that passes. More than one-fourth of the population of Algeria is held in prisons and internment camps where it is subjected to the most cruel and humiliating treatment. This last aspect of this inhuman war was shockingly revealed in a report of the International Committee of the Red Cross published in December 1959, and was the subject of a strong protest addressed to the Secretary-General by twenty African and Asian Members of the United Nations on 10 February 1960.