Although international solidarity was spontaneously and generously shown on the occasion of the last two natural disasters, the people of Algeria have, by contrast, had to live with the feeling that they had been abandoned to their fate during the whole of the time that they were subjected to the extortion, destruction and massacres perpetrated by terrorists who – most cruelly of all – claimed to be motivated by religion.
Si la solidarité internationale s’est spontanément et généreusement manifestée lors des deux dernières catastrophes naturelles, le peuple algérien a vécu, en revanche, avec le sentiment d’être abandonné à son sort pendant tout le temps qu’il était soumis aux exactions, aux destructions, aux massacres d’un terrorisme qui, pour comble de cruauté, entendait se parer de motivations religieuses.