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Many massacres were committed during the Algerian Civil War that began in 1991. The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) claimed responsibility for many of them, while for others no group has claimed responsibility. In addition to generating a widespread sense of fear, the massacres effected migration from and depopulation of the worst-affected areas.
Isly massacre: March 26, 1962 Algiers: 50-80 Massacre of Pied-Noirs rioting against Algeria's independence by panicking French Algerian Muslims troops Omaria massacre: April 23, 1997: Omaria (near Médéa) 42 Oran massacre of 1962: July 5, 1962: Oran: 95-453 Mass killing of French settlers living in Algeria by members of the Algerian National ...
The Oued Bouaïcha massacre took place about 150 miles (240 km) south of Algiers, near Djelfa, on March 26, 1998, during the Algerian Civil War.Forty-seven people, including 27 children under the age of sixteen, were killed at Oued Bouaïcha in the municipality of Bouire Lahdab, near Had Sahary, by about fifteen men carrying axes and knives, who also kidnapped three young women.
Pages in category "Massacres during the Algerian Civil War" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Algerian Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية الجزائرية), known in Algeria as the Black Decade (Arabic: العشرية السوداء, French: La décennie noire), [17] was a civil war fought between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups from 11 January 1992 (following a coup negating an Islamist ...
The Sétif and Guelma massacre [a] (also called the Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata massacres [b] or the massacres of 8 May 1945 [c]) was a series of attacks by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians in 1945 around the market town of Sétif, west of Constantine, in French Algeria.
As a result of the massacre, 78 people (the initial official estimate), 252 people (according to Le Matin and El Watan, quoting hospital sources), 272 people (according to the Algerian government's statement to the UN Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.4/2000/3/Add.1 Archived 2001-04-20 at the Wayback Machine) or 412 people (according to Liberté) were killed in four villages.
Massacres during the Algerian Civil War (31 P) S. Sétif and Guelma massacre (10 P) Pages in category "Massacres in Algeria" The following 9 pages are in this ...