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	Survivor of massacre starts to rebuild life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SIDI RAIS, Algeria -- Ali Alliche wears the scars of the massacre that decimated his family on his throat, neck and shoulder where the executioners' knife and bullets missed their mark.
		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.
		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)

	Rais massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rais massacre, occurring on August 29, 1997, was one of Algeria's bloodiest massacres of the 1990s.
		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.
		Responsibility was claimed for this, as for the Bentalha massacre, by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rais_massacre (3109 words)

	Who are really responsible for the massacres in Algeria?
		Sidi Rais is located in close proximity to the army barracks of Sidi Moussa, about three kilometres away, the army barracks of Baraki, about six to seven kilometres away, the security forces outpost of Gaid Kacem, about four kilometres away, and other security forces posts a few hundreds metres away.
		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.ummah.com /waragainstislam/algeria.htm (3563 words)

	Village massacre spurs unthinkable in Algeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Friday's massacre of up to 300 inhabitants of a poor farming village only intensified the mystery behind the merciless violence in Algeria.
		The bloodletting Friday near Sidi Moussa, just south of the capital, appeared to be the deadliest attack since Algeria's Islamic insurgency began five years ago.
		The village targeted Friday, Rais, is in the heart of the Armed Islamic Group's territory.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/08/30/algeria-why.2-0.html (547 words)

	Beni-Messous massacre
		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.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Beni-Messous_massacre (633 words)

	412 Reportedly Killed in Latest Algeria Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Most massacres in Algeria are blamed on the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA, Islamic extremists who claim that they are performing God's work by attacking nonbelievers and supporters of Algeria's military-backed government.
		Citizens have been warned to be especially alert to the danger of car and trash-bin bombs during this period, and the government has imposed new restrictions on movement, especially around mosques and public places.
		The worst previous massacres in Algeria occurred at the end of summer, when, according to unofficial estimates, more than 500 civilians were killed on the outskirts of Algiers in two attacks against the working-class suburbs of Sidi-Rais and Bentalha.
	www.pacificnet.net /jue/idontknow/religion980103.html (1097 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.
		Villagers have been massacred in the most brutal ways; slaughtered, decapitated, and mutilated with knives, machetes and saws; some have been shot dead and others burned alive as their homes were set on fire.
		According to the authorities and security services all the massacres have been committed by the GIA and other such groups with the aim of terrorizing and punishing the population hostile to them, or who formerly supported them but who had recently withdrawn their support, or relatives and current supporters of rival armed groups.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/algeria/report.htm (13987 words)

	List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In addition to generating a widespread sense of fear, these massacres and the ensuing flight of population have resulted in serious depopulation of the worst-affected areas.
		The massacres peaked in 1997 (with a smaller peak in 1994), and were particularly concentrated in the areas between Algiers and Oran, with very few occurring in the east or in the Sahara.
		Rais massacre of 29 August 1997, 100-400 deaths
	list-of-algerian-massacres-of-the-1990s.area51.ipupdater.com (417 words)

	Militants Massacre Civilians, Algerian Government Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PARIS -- One of the worst massacres in almost five years of war between the military-backed authorities in Algeria and their militant Muslim opponents took the lives of at least 98 inhabitants in hamlets south of Algiers overnight, the Algerian government said Friday.
		Witnesses and hospital workers told journalists that as many as 300 might have been killed in a night of carnage when armed attackers moved in and slit the throats of men, women and children, leaving the heads of some of the victims on their doorsteps after they left.
		On Tuesday, 64 people were reported killed in another massacre in the mountain hamlet of Beni Ali, 40 miles south of the capital.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/massacre.htm (674 words)

	Summary Records - CCPR - Algeria - CCPR/C/SR.1682 (1998)
		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.bayefsky.com /summary/algeria_ccpr_c_sr.16821998.php (6645 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Algeria seeks to turn page on bloodshed – but forgiving is hard
		SIDI RAIS, Algeria – The pain remains just beneath the surface of this dusty town on the doorstep of the Algerian capital, the scene of one of the bloodiest massacres in an Islamic insurgency that voters on Thursday were asked to put behind them.
		Calm has returned to the capital and even to places like Sidi Rais, about 12 miles south of Algiers at the entry to what became known as "The Triangle of Death" at the height of the insurgency in the 1990s.
		His house in Sidi Rais was bombed and his wife and two of his children were wounded by bullets.
	signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050929-1407-algeria-referendum.html (941 words)

	Bentalha massacre - Wikipedia Light!
		On August 29, 1997, about 200 people were killed just a few kilometers to the southeast in the Rais massacre.
		Opponents of this position argue that the question of "who kills?" is obscene, and that the murderers are known to be Islamist guerrillas; for instance, Zazi Sadou of the Algerian Assembly of Women for Democracy claims (in Communalism Combat, April 1998) that:
		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.
	godseye.com /wiki/index.php?title=Bentalha_massacre (1071 words)

	ALGERIA: A STUDY OF THE DREADFUL TWO-TIERED ECONOMIC SYSTEM THE U.S. IS PROMOTING AMONG ITS MUSLIM CLIENT-STATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Take, for example, the massacre in Sidi Rais a few years ago where up to 300 people - men, women, children, and even tiny babies were slaughtered, many of them hacked to death while the army stood by and did nothing.
		Algeria is a Potemkin world of illusion and fantasy - one that presents itself to the West as a world of affluence and safety in the rich enclaves of Algiers, Constantine and Oran, but behind the facade of affluence in the country's major cities is a world of abject poverty and hopelessness.
		The West sees Algiers and Oran; the Islamic world sees Bentalha, Sidi Rais and other villages and towns like them; problem is, 90 percent of the population live in them, while only 10 percent of the population live in Algiers and Oran.
	www.antipasministries.com /html/commentaries/shearer042404.htm (1099 words)

	Sid El-Antri massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Sid El-Antri massacre took place on the night of 23-24 December 1997 in two small villages near Tiaret, Algeria.
		The death toll is unclear; Reuters cites "at least 80", or 48 according to the government, Le Jeune Independent says 117 people were killed and 11 abducted by terrorists, and a timeline gives 53 (including 15 children) killed in Sidi el-Antri (or Sidi el-Antar, Sidi Lamri) and 28 in Shari.
		A few days later, another 26 civilians were killed in the Zouabria massacre, also near Tiaret.
	en.wikilib.org /wiki/Sid_El-Antri_massacre (126 words)

	List of massacres - Internet-Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Massacres are individual events of mass killing of civilians or noncombatants, almost always characterised as having distinct political significance in shaping subsequent events.
		Below is a list of incidents that are commonly referred to as massacres, though other incidents may also qualify yet not be called massacres.
		Note that the figure for deaths is usually an estimate, and is frequently contested.
	www.internet-encyclopedia.com /ie/l/li/list_of_massacres.html (339 words)

	Slaughters are claiming young lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The dates on most markers are the same: Sept. 23, 1997, and Aug. 28, 1997 - the massacres at Bentalha and Sidi Rais - two of the deadliest descents into violence since the start of an Islamic insurgency nearly six years ago.
		Accounts of the massacres remain contradictory, and the horrors are still incomprehensible.
		Her best friend was among a family of nine slaughtered in Sidi Rais by Islamic extremists trying to topple Algeria's military-backed government.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/102697/la0498.htm (331 words)

	Armed Islamic Group - Gurupedia
		The GIA began violent activities in 1992 after Algiers voided the victory of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), the largest Islamic opposition party, in the first round of legislative elections in December 1991.
		Between 1992 and 1998 the GIA conducted a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres, sometimes wiping out entire villages in its area of operation (see eg Bentalha massacre, Sidi Rais massacre.) Since announcing its campaign against foreigners living in Algeria in 1993, the GIA has killed more than 100 expatriate men and women in the country.
		Meanwhile, a 1999 amnesty law which was officially rejected by the GIA was accepted by many rank-and-file islamist fighters; an estimated 85 percent gave up their arms and returned to civilian life.
	www.gurupedia.com /g/gi/gia.htm (584 words)

	Algeria
		Two more massacres are reported to have taken place in Algeria, bringing to nearly 40 the number of people killed by suspected Islamic militants in the past day.
		The slaughter followed five nights of massacres, two bombs in Algiers and one in Oran city in the West, in which a total of more than 300 other people were killed.
		Amid increasing clamour on how such massacres are allowed to continue, Mr Ouyahia announced that a news conference, planned before the massacre and due to be held last night, was postponed.
	www.dhushara.com /book/zulu/alg2.htm (2456 words)

	The Algerian crisis
		The fact, documented extensively, is that the vast majority of those reporters who were admitted to Algeria were severely constrained in where they could go and what they could see and have frequently complained about the difficulty of carrying out their tasks.
		Although bombings and massacres still take place to this day, Algeria has again dropped off American consciousness after the attention it began to receive towards the end of 1997 and the early months of 1998, the period where the most horrendous massacres took place.
		The visit lasted a total of 18 hours and the ministers were not allowed to visit the sites of the massacres or to lay a wreath there in memory of the victims, while their request that a UN raporteur be allowed in was rejected as an unacceptable challenge to Algeria’s sovereignty.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/jan99bouzed.htm (1876 words)

	'Lucky' ones, in bloodied Algeria, die from bullets Negotiators begin work on climate treaty text Commonwealth shifts ...
		Jamal Bin Maatouk, 31, was describing a massacre in the Algerian village of Beni Messous on the night of Sept. 5-6.
		The massacres are the most brutal chapter in Algeria's civil strife which erupted shortly after the authorities cancelled in January 1992 general elections which the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was poised to win.
		Most of the massacres took place in villages and hamlets close to the capital which voted overwhelmingly for FIS in 1991 elections, raising suspicions about the identity of the attackers.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=4715 (4518 words)

	CNN - Islamic terrorists slaughter Algerian villagers - August 29, 1997
		Residents said those massacred lived in a cluster of three hamlets in Sidi Rais, on the outskirts of Sidi Moussa.
		Sidi Moussa, 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Algiers, is called the Triangle of Death, because of the many massacres in the area.
		Two days ago, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, in a rare comment on the massacres, acknowledged that Algerians were being killed each day in remote communities.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9708/29/algeria.new (820 words)

	1997 LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.school-explorer.com /info/1997 (4708 words)

	CNN - Algerian Islamic leader under house arrest - September 1, 1997
		Madani, who also said over the weekend he would call for a cease-fire if the government agreed to start talks, was freed conditionally last July halfway through the 12-year sentence imposed for undermining state security.
		The government said 98 people died and 120 were wounded in the massacre at Sidi Rais overnight Thursday.
		Algeria said Annan's statement was unacceptable, going beyond the competence of a body founded on non-interference and respect for member states' internal affairs.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9709/01/algeria/index.html (575 words)

	Massacre villages tell of terror that stalks Algeria
		Massacre villages tell of terror that stalks Algeria
		A STRING of villages on the Plain of Mitidja, south-east of Algiers, has witnessed massacres this autumn in which women and children have been decapitated or had their throats slit.
		The villages of Rais and Beni Moussa, scene of another massacre, had voted solidly for the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in 1992.
	telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/10/23/walg23.html (661 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		The pain remains just beneath the surface of this dusty town on the doorstep of the Algerian capital, the scene of one of the bloodiest massacres in an Islamic insurgency that voters on Thursday were asked to put behind them.
		It leaves the painful question of the thousands who disappeared _ allegedly at the hands of security forces _ to the state, which would pay reparations.
		While the radical Armed Islamic Group blamed for the Sidi Rais slaughter and other massacres has been decimated, a spinoff group, the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, has grown increasingly potent _ particularly abroad _ and has sworn allegiance to al-Qaida.
	www.tkb.org /NewsStory.jsp?storyID=88449 (920 words)

	1997 Timeline
		• Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
		• Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
		• 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.90sxchange.com /90s-timeline/1997.html (2845 words)

	sociology - 1997
		One hostage dies of a heart attack, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire and all 14 Tupac Amaru rebels are slain
		October 15 - The first supersonic land speed record is set by the ThrustSSC team from the United Kingdom.
		December 19 - Astrophysicist David Schramm is killed in a plane crash near Denver, Colorado.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/1997 (3239 words)

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