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哈基家庭就法国儿童“幽灵坟墓”提起法律诉讼Harki families take legal action over children's 'ghost graves' in France

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2022年,在法国东南部洛丹拉尔多瓦兹附近,考古学家在军事用地上进行发掘,以寻找60多年前安葬哈基儿童的那片区域中的坟墓。© 帕斯卡尔·居约 / 法新社Archaeologists carry out excavations on military land to locate graves in an area where Harki children were buried more than 60 years before, near Laudun-l'Ardoise, southeastern France, in 2022. © Pascal Guyot / AFP

五个哈基家庭——这些在阿尔及利亚独立战争期间为法国作战的阿尔及利亚人——已提起法律诉讼,寻求关于20世纪60年代在法国南部一座前哈基营地中去世的儿童的答案,这些儿童的遗骸此后已不知所踪。

Five families of Harkis – Algerians who fought for the French during Algeria's war of independence – have filed a legal complaint seeking answers over children who died in the 1960s in a former Harki camp in the south of France, and whose remains have since disappeared.

哈基人在阿尔及利亚独立战争(1954-1962年)期间被法国军队招募为辅助部队。

The Harkis were recruited as auxiliaries by the French army during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962).

法国失去殖民地后,约9万名哈基人及其家属逃离阿尔及利亚。许多人被安置在法国南部由军方管理的过渡和安置营地,那里的生活条件极其恶劣。

After France lost its colony, around 90,000 Harkis and their families fled Algeria. Many were placed in army-run transit and resettlement camps in the south of France, where living conditions were extremely poor.

法国新闻社(AFP)的一项调查发现,1962年底至1964年间,在加尔省的圣莫里斯拉尔杜瓦兹营地和拉斯库尔营地,共有70人死亡,其中包括60名幼童。至少有10名是死胎,死因是麻疹疫情。

An investigation by French news agency AFP found that 70 people, including 60 young children, died between late 1962 and 1964 at both the Saint-Maurice-l'Ardoise and Lascours camps in the Gard. At least 10 were stillborn, due to a measles epidemic.

家属的悲痛因儿童的安葬方式而加剧。亲属未参与安葬,有时甚至不被允许参加葬礼。亲属称,一些婴儿据报“被埋葬得像比什么都不如”。

The families' grief was compounded by the way the children were buried. Relatives were not involved in the burials and were sometimes not even allowed to attend the funerals. Some babies were reportedly "buried like they were less than nothing", relatives said.

在圣莫里斯拉尔杜瓦兹营地,儿童在没有像样坟墓的情况下被埋葬,他们的遗体后来在未通知亲属的情况下被移走。

At the Saint-Maurice-l'Ardoise camp, children were buried without proper graves and their bodies later moved without their relatives being informed.

法国将就阿尔及利亚战争后的虐待向更多哈基家庭提供赔偿 巴尔卡乌姆·杜阿维亚于1963年2月在圣莫里斯拉尔杜瓦兹营地去世时,年仅14个月大。法国士兵从她父母怀中夺走孩子的遗体。

France to compensate more Harki families for mistreatment after Algerian War Barkahoum Douaouia was just 14 months old when she died in February 1963 at Saint-Maurice-l'Ardoise. French soldiers took the child's body from her parents' arms.

“他们把她埋在一个坑里,唯一的标识就是一个号码——18号,”她的哥哥丹尼尔·杜阿维亚对法国国际广播电台(RFI)说。“你能想象我父母当时是什么状态吗?被告知:‘我们要把你女儿埋在一个坑里’?他们所做的一切简直是暴行。”杜阿维亚说,父母从未谈起过妹妹的死,可能是因为他们被羞耻和愧疚吞噬。

"They buried her in a hole, and the only identification was a number – 18," her brother Daniel Douaouia told RFI. "Can you imagine what state my parents must have been in? Being told: ‘We're going to bury your daughter in a hole’? What they did was monstrous." Douaouia says his parents never spoke about his sister's death, possibly because they were consumed by shame and guilt.

1979年,得知这个简易公墓存在的宪兵发现,有几座坟墓是空的。

In 1979, gendarmes who had learned about the makeshift cemetery discovered that several of the graves were empty.

报告中写道:“最好不要对这件事大肆张扬。”巴尔卡乌姆的坟墓就在其中,但她的哥哥直到2022年档案解密、报告浮出水面时才得知此事。“他们想掩盖这整件事,这也是我们在寻找答案的原因,”他说。

In their report, they wrote: "It would be best not to make too much noise about this affair." Barkahoum's grave was among them, but her brother only discovered this in 2022, when the report emerged from the archives. "They wanted to cover up this whole affair, and that's why we're looking for answers," he said.

杜阿维亚和另外四个家庭现已就此事向不知名人员提起刑事诉讼。此前,来自里沃萨尔特营地的家庭曾因类似事件于去年提起类似的法律诉讼。

France's top honour for Algerian 'harki' fighters Douaouia and four other families have now filed a complaint against unknown persons. It follows a similar legal action brought last year by families from the Rivesaltes camp, where similar events took place.

他们的律师安托万·奥里表示,他们完全不知道遗体为何被移走和隐藏。“这正是我们希望调查查明的。我们想知道这一切为什么会发生。”

Their lawyer, Antoine Ory, said they had no idea why the bodies were moved and concealed. "That's precisely what we want the investigation to establish. We want answers about why all this happened."

“这显然是一起具有极强历史和象征意义的案件,”他对法国国际广播电台(RFI)表示。“我们认为,法国司法系统介入此事很重要,以向哈基家庭的后代表明,他们没有被遗忘,司法系统已准备好调查这些可怕的事件。”他坚称,这些罪行不受追诉时效限制,司法系统必须能够对其进行调查。

"This is obviously a case with a very strong historical and symbolic dimension," he told RFI. "We think it's important for the French justice system to take an interest in it, to show the descendants of Harki families that they have not been forgotten, and that it's prepared to investigate these terrible events." He insisted that the offences were not subject to the statute of limitations and that the justice system must be able to investigate them.

杜阿维亚希望有朝一日能找到妹妹的遗骸,以便他能表达敬意,最终面对并接受妹妹的离世。

Douaouia hopes his sister's remains will one day be found, so he can pay his respects and finally come to terms with her death.

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