A missed chance to connect Paris Massacres, past & present

"It does no dishonor to those killed in Paris last month to acknowledge that at least 200 people were killed in that city on October 17, 1961." "reporter James Napoli cited contemporary reports of demonstrators clubbed, beaten, strangled and pushed into the Seine, of dead Algerians piled like cordwood. The French government covered up the massacre for years; official claims were that two, or perhaps five, people had been killed. Only in 2001 was a plaque erected to acknowledge the “numerous Algerians killed during the bloody suppression of a peaceful demonstration.” "