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	Gendercide Watch: The Montreal Massacre
		The Montréal Massacre of December 6, 1989, in which 14 women students at the École Polytechnique were systematically killed and 13 other students wounded by a lone gunman, is indelibly imprinted on the minds of Quebeckers and others who struggled to comprehend the worst single-day massacre in Canadian history.
		Candlelight vigils were held across Canada, and on the Sunday following the massacre, tens of thousands of Québec residents and visitors queued in sub-zero temperatures outside the University of Montréal chapel to view the closed caskets of the murdered young women.
		The Montréal Massacre was also a key moment in the struggle for gun control in Canada.
	www.gendercide.org /case_montreal.html (1403 words)

	List of Massacres Encyclopedia Article @ Murdering.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass murder, especially of non-combatant civilians without any reasonable means of defense, that would qualify as war crimes or atrocities.
		Massacres in this sense do not typically apply to combatants, except figuratively, although the deliberate mass killings of prisoners of war are often considered massacres.
		Additionally, the word massacre is often used for political or propaganda purposes, and the choice of whether to label an event a massacre may become a sensitive one; see, for example, the Kent State shootings.
	www.murdering.org /encyclopedia/List_of_massacres (3440 words)

	Survivor of massacre starts to rebuild life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The massacre in Sidi Rais, 12 miles southwest of Algiers, was the worst single episode of carnage since the start of an Islamic insurgency, which in less than six years has taken Algeria to the outer edge of the imaginable.
		The Rais massacre and a mass slaughter three weeks later in Bentalha fueled speculation that elements of Algeria's military-backed regime somehow had a hand in the violence.
		Rais, population about 3,000, is one of a string of dusty bedroom communities south of the capital heading toward the Mitidja Plain, the haunt of the Armed Islamic Group.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/11/30/massacre.2-0.html (1222 words)

	MASSACRES OF CIVILIANS: NO ONE IS SAFE
		The massacres have systematically been committed at night, by large groups of men who attacked the inhabitants, often in their sleep, killing entire families and villages and pursuing and killing whoever attempted to escape.
		The massacres fall within a pattern whereby large groups of men have been able to come from their supposed hiding places in the mountains and forests into the villages, which often entails crossing main roads, carry out killings lasting several hours, and leave to return - undisturbed - to their hiding places.
		However, the situation of massacres is fundamentally different in so far as the massacres often last for several hours, during which nearby security forces should have ample time to intervene to stop the massacres and to apprehend the attackers, who up to now have always been able to leave undisturbed.
	www.algeria-watch.de /mrv/mrvrap/AI1997.htm (2908 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| From Our Own Correspondent \| Violent past haunts Algeria's fresh start
		In the summer of 1997 and the winter of 1998 there was a series of massacres of civilians, and people were too terrified to move.
		The massacre eventually made the Islamist insurgents look so bad that some of them gave up their fight, but the killing left deep wounds among the survivors.
		Seventy of its residents were killed in the massacre and their families are still waiting for justice.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4297888.stm (923 words)

	rais massacre - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		On August 29, 1997, one of Algeria's bloodiest massacres of the 1990s occurred at the village of Rais, near Larbaa and south of Algiers.
		In 1997, Algeria was at the peak of a brutal civil conflict that had begun after the military's cancellation of 1992 elections set to be won by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS).
		The poor farming village of Rais (see map) had mostly voted for FIS and had a history of supporting Islamist guerrillas in the region, but (according to a villager quoted by PBS) had recently stopped providing them with food and money.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Rais-massacre (3131 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Gilles de Rais
		At the height of his power, Gilles de Rais was the richest noble in Europe, and in 1420 his fortune increased by his marriage to an extremely wealthy heiress.
		Gilles de Rais was so esteemed in the eyes of the court that he was appointed to the post Marshal of France - in effect becoming the nation's highest-ranking soldier - so that he could personally crown King Charles VII of France.
		Gilles de Rais, was charged with carrying the holy chrism, or anointing oil, from Paris to Riems for the coronation.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/bior1/rais1.html (2696 words)

	Discoveries at Nineveh ch.7
		During the occupation of Asheetha by the Kurds, Zeinel Bey fortified himself with a few men in the house constructed by the Americans; and the position was so strong, that, holding it against all the attempts of the Tiyari to dislodge him, he kept the whole of the valley in subjection.
		Yakoub Rais, who was naturally of a lively and joyful disposition, could not restrain his tears as he related to me the particulars of the massacre.
		The melek, with a few who had survived the massacre, was living during the day under the trees, and sleeping at night on stages of grass and boughs, raised on high poles, fixed in the very bed of the Zab.
	www.earth-history.com /Babylon/Layard/layard-07.htm (15581 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Rais officially quit last year as chair of the organization to form his own party, the National Mandate Party, known as PAN.
		Rais and Wahid are longtime rivals, their personal differences reflecting the theological and historical competition between the groups they represent.
		Wahid has a longstanding alliance with her, while Rais is trying to forge one of his own with the first president's daughter.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/99/0129/nat1-3.html (758 words)

	Bentalha massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On August 29, 1997, about 200 people were killed just a few kilometers to the southeast in the Rais massacre.
		Together with other women, she took part in the massacre and was responsible for identifying which families should be murdered and the accomplices who should be spared.
		The majority of the terrorists identified by the inhabitants of Hai Rais, Bentalha, Larbaa, Sidi Moussa, are activists of the FIS."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bentalha_massacre (1087 words)

	Who are really responsible for the massacres in Algeria?
		The massacres fall within a pattern whereby large groups of men have been able to come from their supposed hiding places in the mountains and forests into the villages, which often entails crossing main roads, carry out killings lasting several hours, and leave to return - undisturbed - to their hiding places.
		However, the situation of massacres is fundamentally different in so far as the massacres often last for several hours, during which nearby security forces should have ample time to intervene to stop the massacres and to apprehend the attackers, who up to now have always been able to leave undisturbed.
		Many massacres have taken place in areas where a large percentage of the population had voted for the FIS in the 1990 municipal elections and in the 1991 legislative elections.
	www.ummah.com /waragainstislam/algeria.htm (3563 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Summary Record - Algeria
		With reference to the questions about the investigations into the massacres of civilians, it should be stressed that whenever a crime was committed a report was filed and the Procurator of the Republic was informed.
		In connection with the massacre at Sidi Youssef, he assured the Committee that there was no barracks in the vicinity; the nearest was situated 5.8 kilometres from the scene of the bloodbath.
		Having visited the site of the Sidi Rais massacre in person, she could vouch for the ferocity of the attack, which had been carried out at night by individuals armed mainly with knives.
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CCPR.C.SR.1682.En?Opendocument (6652 words)

	Sabrang Alternative News Network
		Ameenabehn Habib Rasool, a victim survivor who lost her son in the bloody massacre along with CJP filed a petition (Special Criminal Appln 1875/2005) praying for the transfer of the entire investigation to the CBI.
		Victim survivors who are the aggrieved party having lost their near and dear ones to a massacre and thereafter been denied the dignified right of burial are being blamed by the state of Gujarat and its’ police for hurting religious sentiments.
		Shri Rais Khan of Citizen for Justice and Peace has also been targeted by the issuance of non-bailable warrant although there is no order directing the ‘accused’ to remain present in Court.
	www.sabrang.com /news/2006/20apr06.htm (3172 words)

	Inquisitor - Histoire des damnés et des tortures, Encyclopédie de l'hérésie
		En 1897, dans une plaquette confidentielle, tirée à mille exemplaires et jamais diffusée, Huysmans présente à nouveau sa vision de l'histoire de Gilles de Rais que la légende populaire a surnommé Barbe-Bleue : maréchal de France à vingt-cinq ans, seigneur tout-puissant, mystique et tueurs d'enfants.
		Présentation de l'éditeur : La figure de Gilles de Rais n'a cessé de hanter Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907).
		Le Moyen Age est une époque qui le fascine par sa foi profonde et ses excès.
	www.heresie.com (924 words)

	Thalit massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Thalit massacre took place in Thalit village (MÃ©dÃ©a, near Ksar el Boukhari; see map), some 70 km from Algiers, on April 3-4 1997.
		Smaller-scale massacres took place the same day at Amroussa, Sidi Naamane, Moretti, and Beni Slimane, killing another 30-odd people.
		Location of massacres in Algeria 1997-1998 showing Thalit near the centre of the map.
	www.anime.co.za /wiki/Thalit_massacre (137 words)

	Algerian junta caught in web of contradictions
		That was the worst massacre in the brutal civil war.
		The Rais massacre is reported to have been perpetrated by men who came in trucks.
		In a letter to the UN chief on August 30, Shaikh Madani had said that he was prepared to call for a truce of all armed resistance provided the regime agreed to the setting up of an international commission to investigate these crimes and enter into a serious dialogue with the Islamic Movement.
	www.algeria-watch.de /en/articles/1997_2000/web_contradictions.htm (801 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Summary Record - Algeria
		The Sidi Rais massacre had occurred during the night: the terrorists had been attending a party and had drawn knives against those present and those in a neighbouring house.
		KARADJA (Algeria) said that, after a massacre, the psychological and physical traumas of the population had to be addressed and the danger of a mass exodus averted.
		In the case of the massacre which had taken place in Sidi Rais on 28 August 1997, the delegation had stated that, when the terrorists began shooting, the crowds had fled towards the police station at the other end of town, thus blocking the road and preventing the police from reaching the scene.
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/7cec89369c43a6dfc1256a2a0027ba2a/28c9d7c358512ebb80256650004d5f72?OpenDocument (5887 words)

	1997 - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		April 3 - Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
		October 12 - Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
		December 30 - In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997, 400 people are killed from four villages in the wilaya of Relizane: Khrouba (176 deaths), Sahnoun (113 deaths), El-Abadel (73 deaths), and Ouled-Tayeb (50 deaths).
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1997 (3165 words)

	Discoveries At Nineveh
		During the occupation of Asheetha by the Kurds, Zeinel (Page 127) Bey fortified himself with a few men in the house constructed by the Americans; and the position was so strong, that, holding it against all the attempts of the Tiyari to dislodge him, he kept the whole of the valley in subjection.
		By this latter contrivance they succeeded in catching any breeze that might be carried down the narrow ravine of (Page 134) the river, and in freeing themselves from the gnats and sandflies abounding in the valley.
		[7.1] It may be remembered that Beder Khan Bey, in 1843, invaded the Tiyari districts, massacred in cold blood nearly 10,000 of their inhabitants, and carried away as slaves a large number of women and children.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /txt/ah/Layard/DiscNineveh07.html (15544 words)

	Ask Us A Question - The Beni-Messous massacre took place on the night of September 5, 1997, in Sidi Youssef, an ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Beni-Messous massacre took place on the night of September 5, 1997, in Sidi Youssef, an outlying neighborhood of the town of Beni-Messous.
		Many families fled Sidi Youssef following these massacres; some took refuge in the Beni-Messous stadium and were still there in 2002[1].
		The houses where the massacre took place were demolished by mayoral decree in 2001; only scattered ruins remain, and no plaque marks the spot.
	www.nesconsetnyus.com /section/Beni-Messous_massacre (846 words)

	Algeria: A human rights crisis - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Algerian authorities blame all the massacres and killings on ''terrorist groups'', but their security forces are also responsible for countless deaths.
		More than 200 men, women and children were massacred, right next to five different army and security forces outposts: Survivors say that as the massacre took place, armed forces units with armoured vehicles were stationed outside the village and stopped some of those trying to flee from getting out of the village.
		Factual evidence about the massacres and survivors' testimonies raise concerns that death squads working in collusion with, and under the protection of, certain units or factions of the army, security forces, and state-armed militias, may have been responsible for some of the massacres.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGMDE280361997?open&of=ENG-DZA (2799 words)

	Amnesty International - ALGERIA (1997)
		Yet, while most of the massacres have been in areas around the capital, in the most heavily militarized region of the country, and often in close proximity to army barracks and security forces outposts, on no occasion have the army or security forces intervened to stop or prevent the massacres or to arrest those responsible.
		However, there is growing concern, from testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses of the massacres, that death squads working in collusion with, and under the protection of, certain units or factions of the army, security forces, and state-armed militias, may have been responsible for some of the massacres.
		It is only in recent months, as the largest massacres took place on the outskirts of the capital, that the silence has begun to be broken; in spite of the usual paucity of images and information the international media has begun to show some concern and raise questions about the human rights situation in Algeria.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/algeria/report.htm (13987 words)

	Rais massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It took place at the village of Rais, near Larbaa and south of Algiers.
		Responsibility was claimed for this, as for the Bentalha massacre, by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
		Anonymous speaking to the Association for the Defence of the Victims of the Massacres in Algeria, Copenhagen, also according to « Voices of the voiceless »:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rais_massacre (3109 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - Algerians give mixed response to amnesty vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Provided they were not involved in rape and mass killings, Mr Bouteflika's charter for peace and national reconciliation grants a pardon to militant Islamists who rose up against the army-backed regime in 1992 after it cancelled their victory in legislative elections.
		At least 150,000 people died in the ensuing violence, many of them women and children, in massacres and cruelty that are poorly understood to this day.
		But at the small agricultural town of Rais, outside Algiers, where some 400 people including many women and children were butchered by suspected Islamists in 1997, there seemed little appetite for an amnesty.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/ac4d3c90-314f-11da-ac1b-00000e2511c8.html (622 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - Algeria claims large turnout for peace vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At least 150,000 people died in the ensuing violence, many of them women and children in massacres whose cruelty is poorly understood to this day.
		But at the small agricultural town of Rais, outside Algiers, where some 400 people were butchered by suspected Islamists in 1997, there seemed little appetite for an amnesty.
		A few men and women trickled in to vote, saying they were responding to the nation's needs, but the official there said that by midday turnout was only 13 per cent, compared with about 30 per cent at the same time in last year's presidential election.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/dd2996c6-314d-11da-ac1b-00000e2511c8.html (617 words)

	Online NewsHour: Algerian Violence-- October 21, 1997
		As the head of the government I’ll tell you that I reject such allegation and I say and insist on the fact that the army, the national guard intervened, intervened as quickly as it was possible.
		SAIRA SHAH: Since the massacre the villagers have been given weapons with which to defend themselves but only on condition they form a government-supervised local defense unit known as Patriots to counter the militants.
		Algeria’s graveyards are packed with the victims of massacres that have happened almost every week over the past few months here.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/july-dec97/algeria_10-21.html (1039 words)

	Gilles de Rais: The Pious Monster
		Gilles had several near-misses in terms of being caught, and historians speculate that Rene de Rais and other close family members were quite aware of what Gilles was doing.
		Rene was clearly acting in an aggressive manner to curtail Gilles’ spending and it was only a matter of time before his younger brother moved to have Machecoul taken as well.
		Once again, as it was when the nobles watched de Rais’ valets dispose of his Champtoce victims, the deaths of peasant children meant nothing to the duke and the bishop.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/rais/downfall_11.html (1574 words)

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