French colonisation of Algeria "brutal" - Hollande

ALGIERS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande acknowledged on Thursday France's colonisation of Algeria had been "brutal and unfair" but he stopped short of an apology to the oil-rich North African state that Paris sees as a major trading partner. "For 132 years, Algeria was subjected to a brutal and unfair system: colonisation. I acknowledge the suffering it caused," Hollande told the Algerian parliament on the second day of a visit aimed at improving diplomatic and economic relations. "We respect the act of memory, of all the memories. ...