THE CRIMINAL FIRE AT THE BU OF BENYOUCEF BENKHEDDA-ALGER UNIVERSITY – COMMONLY CALLED “CENTRAL FACULTY
On June 7, 1962, when three phosphorus bombs, placed by the terrorists of the OAS in the building housing the University library “BU” of the faculty of Algiers, explode, and destroy a documentary fund of half a million d ‘works.
The BU was one of the oldest and richest libraries in the Arab world and in Africa, “with nearly 600,000 scientific works and unpublished manuscripts in Arabic and Latin.
According to some sources of information only 80,000 books were saved in the fire and were transferred to the Lycée Okba in Algiers. They were recovered by the ‘‘ BU ” two years later
The BU arson was the work of the Secret Army Organization (OAS), it is a crime against humanity.
The criminal act aimed to destroy an inestimable cultural and scientific wealth, with the sole aim of depriving future generations of post-independence Algerians of access to knowledge and knowledge.
What is heartbreaking is that in the 1990s, the UN organization UNESCO compiled a list of valuable book libraries, which had been destroyed throughout history, including during the colonial period. The fire of the Algiers BU by the OAS does not appear in this global directory of destroyed libraries, of any kind.
Since then, no Algerian politician has appealed to UNESCO for this state of affairs.
Pity
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