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[MNToothpick]

"Three years after being subjected to a policy of terror themselves, Frenchmen are reacting to this latest news with the indifference of people who have seen too much.  Yet the facts are there, the clear and hideous truth: we are doing what we reproached the Germans for doing.  I am well aware that we have been offered an explanation, namely, that the Malagasy rebels have tortured Frenchmen.  But the cowardly crimes of our adversary do not excuse our becoming cowardly and criminal in turn." 

Albert Camus, May 10, 1947