Souhane massacre

Souhane massacre

The largest of the Souhane massacres took place in the small mountain town of Souhane (about 25 km south of Algiers, between Larbaa and Tablat) on the 20-21 August, 1997. 64 people were killed, and 15 women kidnapped; the resulting terror provoked a mass exodus, bringing the town's population down from 4000 before the massacre to just 103 in 2002. Smaller-scale massacres later took place on November 27, 1997 (18 men, 3 women, 4 children killed) and 2 March 2000, when some 10 people from a single household were killed by guerrillas. The massacres were blamed on Islamist groups such as the GIA.

ee also

* List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s

External links

* [http://www.elwatan.com/2005-02-01/2005-02-01-12735 Souhane in 2005]
* [http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:xrPOkr7FjnUJ:www.turkishdailynews.com/old_editions/08_25_97/for3.htm+souhane+massacre&hl=en Turkish Daily News]
* [http://membres.lycos.fr/troubles/violence.htm Violence]
* [http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/1997/11/29/42510.html Dagsbladet]


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