Word: djamila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stripped Naked. Pretty, doe-eyed Djamila was so important a find that French officers did not even wait until her wound was bandaged; they began their questioning as she lay on the operating table in a military hospital. She admitted being a rebel courier, denied she had any part in the bombings, refused to give the hiding place of Yacef Saadi. For the next 17 days she was in the hands of the French paratroops. In her testimony later, Djamila said she was beaten repeatedly. Djamila testified: "They stripped me naked and tied me on a bench, taking care...
...court-martial the prosecution, assembled three witnesses to link her to the crimes. One of them promptly denied that Djamila Bouhired had any part in the bombings; the second never appeared -she was also a paratrooper prisoner, and the newspapers announced that she had died in custody. The third was a 19-year-old girl named Djamila Bouazza who had spent three years in a mental hospital, answered most questions by machine-gunning the court with her finger and crying: "Tac-tac-tac." She tried to undress on the witness stand and, frantically spinning a bracelet on her wrist, alternately...
...greeted with angry shouts of "Kill the dirty Chinaman!" When he protested an arbitrary ruling, the examining judge observed: "Doctors who care for rebels are arrested. It might be better to arrest lawyers who defend them." Verges was not allowed to make a final plea for his client. Djamila Bouhired, permitted a few words before sentence was passed, said: "The truth is that I love my country; I want to see it free. And it is for this, and this alone, that you have tortured me and are going to condemn me to death. But when you kill...
Pardon to Death? Djamila Bouhired last week was in solitary confinement in the massively grim Barberousse fortress, overlooking the city of Algiers. All legal appeals have failed, and unless she is pardoned by President Coty of France, she will walk to the guillotine as have 127 other Algerians in the 3½-year rebellion. Outraged at the dubious procedures of her trial, French newspapers from the Communist L'Humanite to the conservative Le Figaro to the right-wing L'Aurore are protesting her coming execution. India's Nehru, Tunisia's Bourguiba, Russia's Voroshilov have...
...French, traditionally, are reluctant to guillotine women. But the guillotine is not the only way a person can die. Said her lawyer: "If pardoned by President Coty, Djamila Bouhired is likely to be sent to a prison camp in a barren region bordering on the Sahara, and there will be little trouble finding another 'medical expert' to testify that her death was due to 'natural causes...