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The son of a French anti-imperialist tortured and killed by the French army during Algeria’s war of independence has said he cannot forgive and that the “truth” is more important than any apologies offered by Paris for such crimes. Maurice Audin, a mathematician and communist who supported Algeria’s struggle for self-rule, was killed in 1957, three years into a bitter eight-year war that finally brought an end to French colonial control. His body has never been found. President Emmanuel Macron in 2018 acknowledged in the name of the French state that Audin had “died under torture stemming from…