Extractions: var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript Algeria 's six year civil war between Islamic militants and the secular government has produced some of the most ghastly atrocities in recent memory. After a background report, an expert examines the causes of this bloody conflict that has claimed 75,000 lives. A RealAudio version of this segment is available. NEWSHOUR LINKS: October 21, 1997 Browse the NewsHour's coverage of Africa OUTSIDE LINKS: Algerian history, news and information from ArabNet. Amnesty International's country reports. KWAME HOLMAN: In every year of the 6-year civil war in Algeria attacks on civilians escalated during Ramadan, the Islamic holy month. This year was no exception. At least 1100 people have been killed since Ramadan began December 30th. Over the last three weeks homes were ransackedmen, women and children were murdered. Many had their throats cut or were burned. Massacres have been part of daily life in Algeria since the battle between Islamic militants and Algeria 's secular government, began in 1992. An estimated 75,000 people have lost their lives.
SOS Children's Villages UK : Algeria - Select A Village in El Asnam (Algeria) in 1980, SOS Kinderdorf International offered the constructionof an SOS Children s Village to the algerian government in order to http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/html_uk/algeria_select_a_village.html
Extractions: Capital: Algiers Area: 2,381,741 km² Population: 31 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Berbers, Arabs Official language(s): Arabic Religion(s): Islam Currency: 1 Algerian dinar = 100 centimes... Tunisia - Select a village Capital: Tunis Area: 163,610 km² Population: 9.5 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Arabs (98%), Europeans (1%), After the terrible earthquake in El Asnam (Algeria) in 1980, SOS Kinderdorf International offered the construction of an SOS Children's Village to the Algerian government in order to provide immediate help for the victims of the catastrophe. This offer was most warmly accepted by the Algerian government. In December 1980, already, the construction of the foundations of the new SOS Children's Village was started on a piece of land which was offered by the government. The construction works were finished in autumn 1981 and the family houses ready for the children to move in.
ALGERIA poetry. At that time, the algerian government accused both the FrenchSDECE and the American CIA of being behind the uprising. Today http://www.tamazgha.org/Kabylie2001/algeria-opinion061301.htm
Extractions: ALGERIA: Media Continuing to Ignore Repression of Berbers by Rabah Seffal ** The American news media are supposed to be the freest in the world. Yet many major media outlets failed to report on the Algerian paramilitarys recent brutal repression of the Amazigh people (also known as Berbers). Since April 18, there have reportedly been more than 80 people dead and several hundred injured among the thousands of demonstrators who have protested for more than 40 days the brutal killing, while in police custody, of an 18-year-old Massinissa Guermah, a high school student. The Amazigh people, the original inhabitants of North Africa, number more than 25 million, with the majority living in Morocco and Algeria. Romans, Carthaginians, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Spaniards, Turks, and the French have successively invaded and occupied North Africa. After France lost Algeria as its colony in 1962, the Amazigh people, who were at the forefront of the war of independence, faced an Algerian Arabization program aimed at the eradication of all thinks Amazigh. For forty years, they have refused to abdicate their rights to their language, culture, and identity.
Algeria The algerian government sees foreign mediation between itself and islamistgroups as foreign interference (2003). Political overtures http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/09ED94261A660B7D
Extractions: "Political overtures, such as the 1995 Sant-Egidio platform, which brought both the FIS and non-Islamist opposition parties together in rejecting violence in favour of an inclusive political settlement, have been dismissed by the Algerian government as 'foreign interference'." (International Institute of Strategic Studies, August 2003)
Algeria Special Weapons By 1991 the Algerian research reactor operating at Draria was already under safeguardsand the algerian government had given a public guarantee that the http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/algeria/
Extractions: The first French nuclear weapons tests were conducted in Algeria between 1960 and 1965. The first test took place on February 13, 1960 at Reggan. A total of 14 nuclear weapons tests, four atmospheric and 10 underground, were conducted at two Algerian locations. Algeria has uranium deposits west of Tamanrasset in southeast Algeria. Algeria operates two nuclear reactors: one in the capital of Algiers, supplied by Argentina, and a second at Ain Oussera, supplied by the Chinese. By 1991 the Algerian research reactor operating at Draria was already under safeguards and the Algerian Government had given a public guarantee that the nuclear reactor under construction at Ain Oussera would be subject to IAEA inspection. Aspects of Algeria's nuclear development program caused concern in the West despite claims by Algeria that its two reactors were being used for civilian purposes. Algerian scientists could apply the experience gained in running both reactors to a possible future weapons program.
Extractions: Algerian Violence Reaches New Heights Violence has escalated to new heights in Algeria during the past two years. Few days pass without a report of another ruthless massacre by armed "Islamic" groups in an Algerian village, a bomb attack in Algiers or Ohran, or the assassination of a government official, journalist, or artist. Algeria's crisis began in 1992 when the Algerian military-dominated government canceled elections that the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Algeria's main "Islamic" opposition group, was poised to win. Shortly after canceling elections, the Algerian government outlawed the FIS and arrested thousands of its members and supporters. Since then, the "Islamic" opposition, which itself has splintered into many factions, has waged a war against the Algerian government, and increasingly against the Algerian population itself. The fighting has claimed as many as 100,000 lives since 1992. In September 1997, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), a loose coalition of the most radical and ruthless Algerian opposition groups, claimed responsibility for the violence, calling the recent massacres "an offering to God," and pledging to continue. Increasingly during the past two years, armed opposition groups have attacked villages in the countryside, brutally massacring all their residents, men, women, and children alike. Certain groups within the Algerian populace have become the favored targets of the armed opposition. The armed opposition has attacked those seen as instruments of the Algerian state or whose lifestyles deemed to conflict with "Islamic" values. Women, particularly those leading western lifestyles, have disproportionately suffered, often becoming the victims of rape, kidnapping, and murder. Members of the Algerian government and security forces and their families, political activists, journalists, and artists have also been targeted. Armed "Islamic" groups also have resorted to murdering young men of draft age simply because they were eligible for military service and could be deployed against the opposition cause.
Algeria All religious parties are outlawed from future Algerian elections 1997 The GIAbecomes the main rebel group fighting the algerian government 1999 Abdelaziz http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/algeria.html
Extractions: 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 1999 Abdelaziz Bouteflika (leader of the FLN) was elected president (after all other candidates withdrew or were disqualified from the elections). Opposition leaders claim that both elections were flawed, and they are probably right. To protest those "flaws", opposition parties did not participate in this latest election. Neither did the Berbers of the Kabylie province (which are to Algeria what the the Palestinians are to Israel, except they don't blow up civilians).
Algeria: History June 12 FIS and AIS approves for a peace accord with the algerian government. July 3 Bouteflika declares amnesty for thousands of prisoners. http://i-cias.com/e.o/algeria_5.htm
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN ALGERIA The algerian government continually predicts an early end to the conflict.In early 1995, they predicted that peace would come by 1996JAN. http://www.religioustolerance.org/rt_alger.htm
Extractions: RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN ALGERIA Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. Other essays in this series discuss government repression of religious groups. The situation in Algeria is different. Their government grants religious freedom to all faith groups. But some religious groups appear to be exterminating whole villages and attempting to destabilize the country. Almost all of the victims are fellow Muslims. At least one group has also targeted all non-Muslims for death. Click below to Visit one of our Sponsors: In 1991-92, a federal election was held in Algeria. The results of the first round of elections showed that the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) would win by a landslide. It was their intent to establish an Islamic State. The army took over the government of the country, annulled the election and created a military dictatorship. This triggered a period of unrest which has continued to the present time. The FIS was banned in 1992. It has since "splintered into different factions, some of them such as the Armed Islamic Movement (MIA), Salvation Islamic Army (AIS), and Armed Islamic Group (GIA) - advocating and using violence." President Liamine Zeraual won a general election in 1995-NOV, and again in 1996-JUN. (1) But the disturbances appear to be escalating.
Keesing's Worldwide Online - Hot Topics: Harkis over 200,000, the harkis maintained that they received insufficient assistancefrom the French Government and also attacked the algerian government for its http://www.keesings.com/hot_topics/harkis/
Extractions: Home About Us Print Products Electronic Products ... Trial Overview Hot Topics: Harkis July 1991 Violent disturbances erupted during June and July in the Mediterranean port of Narbonne, among groups of Harkisethnic Algerians who had acquired French citizenship after fighting for France in the Algerian independence struggle. Protesting against what they described as years of neglect by the French authorities, young militants among the 420,000-strong community engaged in repeated clashes with police, and some 15 people were injured on July 23-25. Despite efforts by older Harkis to moderate the militant groups, and despite government promises to examine their claims, racial tensions continued to grow as the month progressed. On July 24 a group of paratroopers received suspended sentences in nearby Carcassonne for attacking North African immigrants with clubs. September 1975 Kidnapping of Algerians by "Harkis". - Government Proposals to phase out "Harki" Camps In addition to the difficulties described above, Franco-Algerian relations also had to contend with the problem of the "harkis "-the Moslem Algerians who had fought on the French side during the war of independence, had opted for French nationality and had since lived in France, mostly in southern French ghettoes. Numbering (with their dependants) over 200,000, the harkis maintained that they received insufficient assistance from the French Government and also attacked the Algerian Government for its policy of refusing them entry except on a case-by-case basis and for refusing to let members of their families still in Algeria join them in France.
[Islam-Online- Top News] Thursday, February 3, 2000. algerian government Says AIS Islamic FightersHave Laid Down Arms ALGIERS, Feb 2 (AFP) All fighters http://www.islamonline.net/iol-english/dowalia/news-3-2-2000/topnews7.asp
Extractions: Home About Us Media Kit Contact Us ... Your Mail Search Advanced Search News People Against Prisoner Abuse The World in Pictures ... Muslim Heritage Discover Islam Introducing Islam Ask about Islam Contemporary Issues My Journey to Islam ... Qur'an Fatwa Fatwa Bank Ask the Scholar Live Fatwa Counseling Cyber Counselor Directories Site Directory Islamic Society Islamic Banks TV Channels ... Telephone Code Services Prayer Times Matrimonial Date Converter Calendar ... E-Cards Newsletter Enter your E-mail Thursday, February 3, 2000 Algerian Government Says AIS Islamic Fighters Have Laid Down Arms ALGIERS, Feb 2 (AFP) - All fighters of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Army (AIS) have returned to their homes since being granted a blanket amnesty by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika last month, state radio said Wednesday. AIS leader Madani Mezrag is at home in Kaous near Jijel, 350 km (220 miles) east of Algiers, accompanied by two close aides, Mohamed Chelli and Fodil Boubnidra, the radio report said. The estimated strength of the AIS - the armed wing of the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) - in the Jijel region was almost 1,200, according to the report, which added that all AIS fighters in the northwest - "a little more than 500" - commanded by Ahmed Benaicha, had also gone home. About 200 fighters from another group, the Islamic League for Preaching and Jihad (LIDD), who were billeted under military surveillance at Tamezguida, near Medea, 80 km (50 miles) south of Algiers, have also demobilized, going home with passes provided by the regional state prosecutor.
Algeria Independence France 1954-1962 of war dead may be far higher than the original FLN and official French estimates,even if it does not reach the 1 million adopted by the algerian government. http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/algeria1954.htm
Extractions: Armed Conflict Events Data Algerian War of Independence 1954-1962 As the FLN campaign spread through the countryside, many European farmers in the interior sold their holdings and sought refuge in Algiers, where their cry for sterner countermeasures swelled. Colon vigilante units, whose unauthorized activities were conducted with the passive cooperation of police authorities, carried out ratonnades (literally, rat-hunts; synonymous with Arab-killings) against suspected FLN members of the Muslim community. The colons demanded the proclamation of a state of emergency, the proscription of all groups advocating separation from France, and the imposition of capital punishment for politically motivated crimes. An important watershed in the War of Independence was the massacre of civilians by the FLN near the town of Philippeville in August 1955. Before this operation, FLN policy was to attack only military and government-related targets. The wilaya commander for the Constantine region, however, decided a drastic escalation was needed. The killing by the FLN and its supporters of 123 people, including old women and babies, shocked Jacques Soustelle, the French governor general, into calling for more repressive measures against the rebels. The government claimed it killed 1,273 guerrillas in retaliation; according to the FLN, 12,000 Muslims perished in an orgy of bloodletting by the armed forces and police, as well as colon gangs. After Philippeville, all-out war began in Algeria.
Extractions: Press Release: Transparency International and the Algerian Association against Corruption (AACC) call on Algerian government to put a stop to press freedom violations in Algeria Algeria must sign and ratify the new African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption as soon as possible, and allow the media to operate freely Algiers / Berlin, 17 September 2003 The Algerian government has been relentlessly harassing the main Algerian dailies in recent weeks, namely El Khabar L'Expression Le Matin and . Various newspapers have been momentarily suspended by the authorities while certain journalists have fallen victim to some rough questioning, undergone unacceptable police harassment and seen their civil rights violated. This assault on the press is not an isolated act; on 6 August 2003 the Algerian government adopted a decree, with the aim of controlling the import of books and reintroducing censorship. Transparency International (TI), the leading global anti-corruption NGO, is gravely concerned by this violation of fundamental human and civic rights, coming as it does after the publication in these same newspapers of corruption scandals where senior regime officials were involved. The officials concerned have neither commented on nor denied the accusations. Clearly, newspaper editors and journalists are being impeded from doing their job of informing the public and monitoring state institutions. Against this backdrop it is impossible not to remember the case of the late
UrbanRail.Net > Africa > ALGER Métro (Algiers - Algeria) In June 1981, The algerian government decided to introduce a metro underground systemin the capital, which cannot still see the end of the tunnel. In 1986 http://www.urbanrail.net/af/algiers.htm
Extractions: ALGER Algeria The Algiers Metro Project by Monia Denine Situation Analysis In June 1981, The Algerian government decided to introduce a metro underground system in the capital, which cannot still "see the end of the tunnel." In 1986 Algeria's economy faced some difficulties because of the collapse of oil prices. The government's first reaction was to freeze the metro project, which was then estimated to cost 5.2 billion dinars (£ 49.590.000). The Algiers metro is supposed to be made of 3 lines containing 54-stations: The first line would link Aïn Allah to Gué de Constantine via El-Biar, downtown Algiers and Aïn Naadja. The third line would link Hussein Dey and Ain Allah via the Annassers. The line linking Hai El-Badr to Oued Koureich is to be built in two stages. The first stage would link Hai El-Bard to downtown in the Grand Poste area. This route is a 9 kilometre tunnel with 10 stations. The second stage is the continuation of the first route with a 3.5 kilometre tunnel between the Emir Abdelkader area and the neighbourhood of Oued Koreiche. A total of 6 stations will be built on this second route. The stations that are with completion rates of 97% are: Aissat Idir, Place du 1er Mai, Tafourah, Grande Poste.Stations like Khelifa Boukhalfa and Hamma will be completed by 2003.
Boston.com / News / World / US Search For Qaeda Turns To Algeria Mali, where members of the Algerianbased group are believed to be hiding amonglocal Bedouins and nomadic tribes, a senior algerian government official said http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/03/11/us_search_for_qaeda_turns_t
Extractions: Today's Globe Politics Opinion Education ... World By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff, 3/11/2004 WASHINGTON US special forces are hunting for Islamic militants linked to Al Qaeda along Algeria's southern border with Mali in a little-known military operation aimed at destroying a key North African recruiting hub for Osama bin Laden's global terrorist network, according to US and Algerian officials. ADVERTISEMENT Small teams of elite US soldiers have been working with local security forces in recent months in the Sahara Desert in an effort to capture or kill members of the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, a radical Islamic organization that has pledged its allegiance to Al Qaeda and is suspected in terrorist plots in Europe and the United States, said the officials, who asked not to be identified. The joint effort marks another front in the war on terrorism and a watershed in US-Algerian relations. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Washington stepped up military assistance to Algiers in its 12-year civil war against Islamic extremist groups. The US military involvement is also part of a larger US antiterrorism campaign in the vast, desolate Sahel region of North Africa which touches the nations of Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Chad that US intelligence officials fear could become a primary training ground for radicals exporting terrorism around the world. "They send troops in and out and have put up some kind of infrastructure" along the border with Mali, where members of the Algerian-based group are believed to be hiding among local Bedouins and nomadic tribes, a senior Algerian government official said of the US troops, adding that "there is no permanent presence of the US military in Algeria."
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Extractions: ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE COVENANT Concluding observations of the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights ALGERIA 1. The Committee considered the initial report of Algeria (E/1990/5/Add.22) at its 46th and 47th meetings on 30 November 1995 and at its 48th meeting on 1 December 1995 and adopted At its 58th meeting on 8 December 1995, the following concluding observations. A. Introduction 2. The Committee thanks the State party for the submission of its initial report, for the written replies to the Committee's list of issues and for the quality of the dialogue with the Algerian delegation, whose open-mindedness and cooperation are appreciated. 3. The Committee notes that, despite the country's economic, social and security problems, the State party has submitted a detailed initial report on the constitutional and legislative provisions which are designed to protect and promote the economic, social and cultural rights of the inhabitants of Algeria.
IHT: Standing By While Algerian Horror Mounts Privately, many governments can only express their frustration at trying to help,to work with, even to talk to, an inwardlooking algerian government that has http://www.iht.com/IHT/BK/98/bk010898.html
Extractions: Subscriptions By Brian Knowlton International Herald Tribune WASHINGTON - The questions arise ever more insistently as the body count of Algerian horror mounts, the tally already higher than in many other conflicts. Where is the international reaction? Where the thundering condemnations? Where are the peacemakers, the conciliators? How can it be that the brutal rapes and killings of tens of thousands of Algerians have been so slow to touch the international psyche? Officially, a growing list of countries has denounced the almost nightly killings. The toll since 1992, when the government canceled a general election in which radical Islamists held a commanding lead, is believed to be 80,000. A fresh wave of bloodshed has brought to more than 1,000 the number killed in the last two weeks alone, including 62 announced Wednesday by the security services in Algiers. Privately, many governments can only express their frustration at trying to help, to work with, even to talk to, an inward-looking Algerian government that has rejected their efforts with curt fury, slamming the door in recent months on an initiative by the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan.
MSN Encarta - Algeria In 1995 and 1996 international lenders rescheduled Algerias foreigndebt, which also helped the beleaguered algerian government. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761554128_5/Algeria.html
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Busca AAAFlash ALGERIA Faith in algerian government shaken by quake. By Craig S.Smith (NYT) More than just buildings collapsed in the earthquake http://support.casals.com/aaaflash1/busca.asp?ID_AAAControl=9430