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  Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in the Conflict Situation in Algeria - 64th IFLA General Conference - ...
Writers, including militants of the party in power and even scientists, were obliged to leave the country or to have their works published abroad.
Algerians, like observers of the Algerian scene for that matter, had no choice but to follow the evolution of events through press communications or information reported by foreign radio and television stations, and supplied mainly by the Agence France Presse (AFP).
After independence, the Algerian rulers took insufficient interest and even, in some cases, no interest at all in libraries, all the less so as local administration was taken over by the single party.
www.ifla.org /IV/ifla64/173-129e.htm   (2820 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
National independence through: 1) the restoration of the Algerian state, sovereign, democratic, and social, within the framework of the principles of Islam; 2) the preservation of a fundamental freedoms, without distinction of race or religion.
The recognition of Algerian nationhood by an official declaration abrogating all edicts, decrees, and laws by virtue of which Algeria was "French soil." In return for which: 1.
Algerians: The F. is your front; its victory is your victory.
www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/flni.htm   (423 words)

  
 Community of Sant'Egidio
Although the document was not accepted by the Algerian regime, the Platform remains, until the referendum on "civil concord" at the end of 1999 and beyond, the only document largely consensual produced by the political actors of the country.
This is the goal of every negotiation: to develop in the parties the taste, the expectation of a common future: in a word, the fascination of peace.
By means of this accord, confirmed by the Rules of Implementation signed by the parties in March 1998, 13 universities and many secondary and primary schools were returned to the Albanians, near up until the war in 1999.
www.santegidio.org /en/pace/pace4.htm   (1324 words)

  
 Amnesty International - ALGERIA (1997)
The Algerian authorities claim that "terrorist" groups are responsible for all the killings, abductions, and other human right abuses and acts of violence which have been committed since the beginning of the conflict.
The Algerian authorities have not commented officially on any specific incidents, but newspapers close to the authorities have often reported that the security forces could not intervene because the terrain around the villages where the massacres were committed had been mined by those who committed the massacres to prevent the security forces' intervention.
Several Algerian journalists have stated, off the record, that they know that he was taken by the security forces and that this is the reason why the case is not being talked about in the media.
www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/algeria/report.htm   (13987 words)

  
 Maghreb Mirror: New Algerian Law Clears the Way for Free Elections
On April 2, the Algerian parliament passed a new election law establishing the timetable and ground rules for parliamentary elections scheduled for June 27.
Algerian political parties are forbidden from receiving foreign funding.
The new law, written by the FLN government and passed by the all-FLN Parliament, is clearly meant to marginalize the Islamic Front of Salvation (FIS), winner of the June 1990 local elections.
www.wrmea.com /backissues/0591/9105045.htm   (786 words)

  
 Algeria and the Paradox of Democracy (by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed) - Media Monitors Network
So we are obliged to be rather prudent.” Unfortunately for him and the Algerian junta’s other friends in the US, EU and their Arab client-regimes, the evidence contradicts his effective political appeasement of the junta’s policies.
For example, in November 1997, a serving officer with the Algerian military known as ‘Hakim’ contacted the French newspaper Le Monde to express the feelings of a group of officers who were sickened by their work.
Western economic interference in Algerian affairs has, however, enriched Western investors at the expense of the Algerian people, contributing significantly to the socio-economic devastation of the country in tandem with the escalating violence.
www.mediamonitors.net /mosaddeq4.html   (6750 words)

  
 Comunità di Sant'Egidio - Rassegna stampa
The Platform is a declaration of principles by which the Algerian parties and leaders from all points on the political spectrum (secular, socialist, Trotskyite, democratic, and Islamist) commit themselves to a peaceful solution of the crisis.
The Algerian war of liberation in the late 1950s had left its mark on the Algerian church, but thanks to the leadership of its archbishop, Cardinal Léon Etienne Duval, it was able to encourage the development of Muslim-Christian-Jewish coexistence.
The Algerian government rejected the Platform document from the outset as an interference in Algeria’s internal affairs; as a plot of international forces, including the Vatican; and as an attempt to manipulate the Algerian political debate.
www.santegidio.org /news/rassegna/00000/19980530_peaceworks2_EN.htm   (957 words)

  
 Welcome to the Middle East Polcy Council web site.
By contrast, the father of the Algerian nationalist movement, the North African Star (NAS) — created in Paris under the umbrella of the French Communist party as the Ottoman Empire collapsed and the Rif war was raging — was a factory worker, Messali Hadj, a close friend of Ho Chi Minh.
The Islamist party not only trounced all its opponents in the first round by capturing 188 of a total of 430 seats; it was also in a commanding position in 162 districts for the second stage.
On the liberal side of the political spectrum, most of the "democratic" parties were rumored to have been set up, financed and controlled by the state, as evidenced by their poor showing in the elections and their zealous backing of the coup.
www.mepc.org /journal_vol5/9801_amirouche.asp   (10409 words)

  
 Mario's Cyberspace Station: Algerian Ramadan Slaughterers
Algerian film director Ali Tenki was among sixty five civilians killed in sporadic violence on August 24 in the south and west of the Algerian capital Al Watan daily reported.
Algerian gunmen killed more than 70 villagers in the Labra area and Medea region, south of Algiers, earlier this week in revenge for a military offensive in which up to 300 rebels died, Algerian newspapers said on July 29.
Algerians who volunteered to fight with the Afghan Mujahedeen against the Soviet Army in the 1980s are said to make up the hard core of GIA ranks.
mprofaca.cro.net /massacr1.html   (6936 words)

  
 Algeria News
Algerian security troops killed Monday September 04, 2006 06:39 - ALGIERS - Armed groups in Algeria have killed six members of the security forces in two separate ambushes, according to newspaper reports.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will decide soon whether to extend a six-month amnesty, expiring on Monday, for Islamist rebels who have fought for years to overthrow the government, state radio...
AN ALGERIAN terrorist who was acquitted of involvement in the al-Qaeda ricin plot can be deported from Britain, a special court ruled yesterday.
www.topix.net /world/algeria   (668 words)

  
 IFEX ::
Among the reactions to the visit, an Islamist party which is a member of the ruling coalition urged that the participating journalists and academics be tried.
On the morning of Tuesday 27 June, commentators in the private press expressed surprise at the speed and harsh tone of accusations against members of the visiting delegation, since the visit had been expected for some time and authorities had been aware of it.
One Algerian newspaper and several Arab-language papers published in London announced the upcoming visit some time ago, and at no point did the authorities try to dissuade or stop members of the delegation from travelling to Israel.
www.ifex.org /fr/content/view/full/10801   (227 words)

  
 ALGERIA
FFS spokesman Ali Rachedi said that his party was asked to change a five-minute message that one of its leaders, Seddik Debaili, had recorded for broadcast May 16 because he used the term "coup d'état" when referring to the military-backed cancellation of elections in 1992 and forced resignation of the president.
While allocating campaign airtime to parties fielding candidates, including those belonging to opposition parties, Algerian television tends not to cover events organized by political groupings whose views are in disfavor with the authorities.
Opposition parties reserved their strongest objections for the high media profile of the RND candidates who are also sitting cabinet ministers, and the extensive television coverage they received in the two months preceding the official campaign.
www.hrw.org /reports/1997/algeria/Algeria-09.htm   (5505 words)

  
 Congressional Record
The Algerian junta has hinted that it might follow through with the final phase of the transition, presidential elections, due in late 1993; but FIS is unlikely to be included.
The Algerian coup was in many ways like the abortive Moscow putsch in 1991; although the process may take longer, it will fail for similar reasons.
Although it finally managed to register in Moscow as a legal party in 1991, its activities were banned in four of the five Central Asian states because of communist fear of Islam as a political force.
www.fas.org /irp/congress/1993_cr/h930614-islamist.htm   (5760 words)

  
 Algerian political parties reject foreign intervention
The Algerian political parties renewed their rejection of any foreign intervention in the internal affairs of their country, and asked not to internationalize their crisis which they said proceeds towards detente.
Parties of the National Liberation Front, the Peaceful Society Movement, the Progress Movement and the Labor Party said in statements released on Thursday the need to find out solutions for problems in Algeria through public institutions in the country.
Meanwhile, Algerian security sources said in a statement that the number of dead in a bomb explosion that took place in a suburb of the capital Algiers increased to 10 persons reported killed and another 21 wounded.
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/980710/1998071015.html   (444 words)

  
 Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in the Conflict Situation in Algeria
Ahmed Ancer was born in Jijel, Algeria and started his career as a journalist with the Algerian governmental newspaper, El Moudjahid in 1981 after he studied political science at the University of Algiers.
No newspaper devoted even a paragraph to the persistent rumour that had been spreading for a fortnight to the effect that a general strike was to be launched throughout the country.
From this time on, the FLN, not being favourable to the elevation of the cultural level of the population, a slow but steady decline decreased the existing cultural heritage even more; the buildings were no longer maintained, and the collections were neglected.
www.ifla.org /faife/papers/guest/ancer_e.htm   (3116 words)

  
 International Review of Social History volume 48 part 2 summaries
In settler societies this meant that the local communist party should aim to be demographically representative of the entire population.
This article traces the efforts of the communist parties in Algeria and South Africa to indigenize, seeking to explain why their efforts had such diverse outcomes.
From a gender perspective, it is interesting to note that the leading reference for the public handling of private affairs in the Party forums was the equality postulated between women and men, or more precisely between female and male Party members.
www.iisg.nl /irsh/48-2-summ.php   (696 words)

  
 Government: Political Parties
Official Home Page from Algeria of Harakat Moudjtamaa As-Silm or Movement of the Islamic Society - is a moderate Algerian Islamist political party which believes in pluralist democracy and refuses exclusion the imposition of a unique way of thinking on the society.
It is a grass roots organization which enjoys support throughout the whole spectrum of the Algerian society, whether by sex, age or socio-economic categories.
Rally for Culture and Democracy is a liberal party with a predominantly Kabyle following advocating Berber culture.
www.assr.org /topics/misc/7_34.html   (261 words)

  
 ALGERIA AT THE BRINK
The preferred European outcome is a constructive dialogue among contending Algerian factions leading to a cease-fire and new elections to form a government of national reconciliation.
President Zeroual has reopened discussions with the (legal) parties and has been told by many of them that talks are meaningless if the (illegal) FIS is excluded.
Some party chieftains, on the other hand, demand disavowal of political violence by Madani and Belhadj as a precondition for inclusion in the government's dialogues.
www.ndu.edu /inss/strforum/SF_32/forum32.html   (1340 words)

  
 Algeria
Despite widespread electoral fraud in 1997 and 1999, Algeria is one of the few Arab countries in which people can actually cast a vote (votes are not necessarily counted, but it's a beginning).
In 1997 the winner was the National Democratic Rally (RND), president Zeroual's party, followed by the FLN.
In 1992 the army invalidated the first democratic elections ever because the islamic party had won a clear majority.
www.scaruffi.com /politics/algeria.html   (616 words)

  
 European Europe History - A Critical Evaluation of Charles De Gaulle's Handling of the Algerian Insurrection
An armistice was sought with Ho Chi Minh, and the nations of North and South Vietnam emerged from the ashes of the colony.
While de Gaulle sought to engage the Algerian population, he continued the war against the military branch of the FLN, the Army of National Liberation (ALN).
The first option was total independence, the second was total integration, and the third was association, "government of Algerians by Algerians, supported by French aid in close union with France."25 It would be for the Algerians themselves to decide.
www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=22721   (2480 words)

  
 Algeria
It is inconceivable that the army and security forces would allow these massacres to be perpetrated for several hours and not move in to catch the criminals in their act.
Thus, the main objective of the Algerian government, backed by the Western states, out of perpetrating these massacres and attempting to attribute them to the Islamic groups, is to slaughter Islam and to undermine the idea of Khilafah and rule by that which Allah has revealed.
The appeal of Hussein Ait Ahmed and other leaders of Algerian parties to the United Nations and to Western states, seeking their intervention to put an end to the tragic situation in Algeria, is nothing but political stupidity and suicide.
geocities.com /Athens/Agora/4229/algeria.html   (2016 words)

  
 Religious Studies: Events in Wellington - Ahmed Zaoui give public lecture
Ahmed Zaoui became a member of the Algerian parliament in the first democratic elections there in 1991, as a representative of the FIS (Islamic Salvation Front).
He never took up his seat because in January 1992 the Algerian military launched a coup ensuring that the former government maintained power.
Mr Zaoui was part of a group that organised the Rome Colloquium, which sought to bring the Algerian political parties and other interested parties to work for peace in that country.
www.vuw.ac.nz /religion/events/wtgn_events/zaoui_lecture.htm   (284 words)

  
 "Algeria's Islamist Revolution: The People Versus Democracy?" (January 1998)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Andreopoulos’s penetrating observations pertaining to the Algerian-French war are transposable to the new Algerian war: "One of [its] most disturbing features is the indiscriminate use of violence as a means both of instilling fear in the enemy and of rallying supporters to the cause."
The Algerian minister of energy demanded a revision of signed contracts to include an indexation of the prices of gas on the sky-rocketing prices of oil.
Two of the signatories of the Rome Convention, the Movement for Islamic Society (Hamas), and the Algerian Renewal Party, fielded presidential candidates in 1995.
www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/amirou.htm   (10389 words)

  
 Front de Liberation Nationale
The opening of negotiations with the authorized spokesmen of the Algerian people on the basis of the recognition of sovereignty through Algerian liberation, one and indivisible.
The creation of a climate of confidence through the liberation of all political prisoners, the lifting of all measures of exception, and the ceasing of all pursuit of the fighting forces.
The recognition of Algerian nationality by an official declaration abrogating the edicts, decrees and laws making Algeria a “French land,” which is a denial of the History, the geography, the language, the religion, and the mores of the Algerian people.
www.marxists.org /history/algeria/1954/proclamation.htm   (662 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Algeria's Continued Violence -- January 22, 1997
In November, Algerian voters endorsed constitutional changes proposed by the government to outlaw political parties based on religion, language, or ethnicity.
This is a Constitution that was developed in 1989 in order to bring in the multiparty system in Algeria after a long period of about 30 years of mono party system based on, you know, the party that had led the country to win the war of liberation over the presence of France.
The tragedy is that it is the two extremes which are setting the boundaries of this conflict, whereas, in the center the majority of the Algerian people are not represented and are scared to death.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/january97/algeria_1-22.html   (1886 words)

  
 Islam Online- News Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Algerian government, however, came under ire from the Movement for National reform – the largest opposition party –- that said its members of parliament would protest against the government’s decision.
In October 2002, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika first made the announcement that his country will undoubtedly join the 55-member Francophonie Organization but refrained from specifying a date.
He reminded that 1.5 million Algerians were killed for the sake of their country's independence.
www.islam-online.net /English/News/2005-01/07/article02.shtml   (597 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Release of Madani and Belhadj by the Algerian government in preparation for a constructive political dialogue.
Acceptance of the Rome Declaration as a foundation for political dialogue with the FIS and other Algerian parties interested in peaceful resolution of differences.
Should the FIS leadership refuse to detach itself from the GIA and other extremist groups, its claim to legitimacy would be undermined; on the other hand, the Algerian military would be expected to curtail its draconian measures as a test of the military's good faith.
www.ndu.edu /inss/strforum/SF_32/forum32r.html   (223 words)

  
 Algeria Watch International
Algerian violence -- October 21, 1997 (PBS Newshour)
Algerian crisis -- October 1, 1997 (PBS Newshour)
Article on the Algerian economy by former prime minister A. Ibrahimi
www.pmwatch.org /awi   (164 words)

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