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Algerian junta caught in web of contradictions By Sid Ahmed, Crescent, September 16-30, 1997 The footprints of the Algerian junta are visible all over the gruesome massacres that...

INESG, a subterranean Think Tank Algeria Interface, 25 February 2000 Ostensibly, Algeria’s Institute of Global Strategic Studies (INESG) studies political, economic and social trends and makes strategic reform...

Editor in the Firing Line in unopened murder case Algeria Interface, 18 February 2000 Legal action is being taken against the newspaper Libre Algérie for the publication of...

The blowtorch election that shames Britain John Sweeney, Algiers, The Observer, 25 May 1997 In Algeria , the country with the world’s worst human rigts record: 1. Eight...

Plans to make the algerian Army a professional fighting Force under Study Algeria Interface, 18 February 2000 A team of military and defence experts is currently examining the...

Press Interview overlooked despite grave Allegations Algeria Interface, 27 July 2000 In an interview to an Arabic weekly that has gone oddly unnoticed, former Islamic guerrilla turned anti-Islamic...

Algeria ‘s Blowtorch Election ‘Only kiss the hand you cannot cut off’: The military is torturing and killing its way to victory over Islamists in the June poll....

‘They burnt my genitals, arms and legs with a soldering iron and a blowtorch. But worse was to come ..’ Surviving Algeria John Sweeney, The Observer, 29 June...

Algeria acts on massacre of Italians John Sweeney, Trapani, Sicily, The Observer, 23 November 1997 ALGERIA has reopened its investigation into the massacre of seven Italian seamen and...

‘This is where they shot my wife. Here they killed my daughter with an axe’ David Hirst, The Guardian, October 20, 1997 David Hirst, the first British reporter,...

‘We bombed Paris for Algeria ‘ Islamic cells are infiltrated, ‘terrorist’ attacks orchestrated, French MPs bribed. A secret service defector seeking asylum in Britain reveals the regime’s manipulation...

Messy end for AIS Algeria Interface, 18 January 2000 The amnesty President Bouteflika has granted fighters from the former Islamic Salvation Army (AIS) is the culmination of two...

Atrocities in Algeria: We were the murderers who killed for the state The Algerian government blames Islamic fundamentalists for the torture and massacre of its people. But John...

Human Rights Index The hell the West refuses to see: Torture of a nation JOHN SWEENEY, The Observer, 28 June 1998 HE NEVER looks up. He sits in...

You want a desert war? Try this one JOHN SWEENEY,The Observer, 08 February 1998 THE planes have taken off, the war is on and they’re bombing the enemy...

If Algeria Won’t Stop the Killing, UN Must Step In By Flora Lewis, Herald Tribune, October 3, 1997 PARIS — At long last, international concern is stirring at...

Open letter From John Sweeney JOHN SWEENEY, The Observer, 19 April 1998 Dear Bernard-Henri Levy, You must have found the news from Relizane a cruel blow. But evidence...

Ex-army man saw villagers being murdering Lara Marlowe, The Irish Times, 30 octobre 1997 Three people who witnessed some of the horrors of the Algerian civil war and...

Can you call this ethical, Mr Cook? Algeria , not the bully of Baghdad, is the real test By JOHN SWEENEY, The Observer, 18 Jan 1998 ROBIN COOK...

Sonatrach in Landmark agreement with BP-Amoco Algeria Interface , March 3, 2000 The $2.4 billion BP-Amoco is to invest in the In Salah gas field is just one...

AIS, from Surrender to dissolution Algeria Interface, december 30, 1999 After a two-year ceasefire and recent wrangling prompted by the controversial about-turn of its chief, Madani Mazrag, the...

Algerians tortured by security forces Lara Marlowe, Irish Times, 30 octobre 1997 Defectors from the Algerian army and police have described in horrific detail to The Irish Times...

Civil harmony breeds public Discord Algeria Interface, November 2, 1999 As the Algerian government publicly congratulates itself on its Civil Harmony Act, there is widespread scepticism about numbers...

Is that blood on the canvas? John Sweeney, The Observer, 14 December 1997 THE flopping down of Richard Branson’s wayward balloon in what Lord Salisbury once called ‘the...

Algeria splashes out on arms Algeria Interface, 01.12.2000, www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=111&lng=e.htm Windfall oil earnings and reduced debt burden have revived the Algerian army’s determination to modernise. Paris, 1/12/00 – Rising...

Interview with Kamel Rezzag-Bara Algeria Interface, October 24, 1999 Algiers, 24/10/99 – President of Algeria’s official human rights agency, Observatoire National des Droits de l’Homme (ONDH), he talks...

A self-serving piece of legislation www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=58&lng=e.htm Algiers, 12/11/99 – The Civil Harmony Act became law on July 13, months before Algerians were finally called upon to express their...

The Interface Interview with Nesroulah Yous, Author of « Who killed Bentalha? » Algeria Interace, 19.10.2000, www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=105&lng=e.htm Nesroulah Yous now lives in France where he has taken up painting and...

Algeria and the Paradox of Democracy: The 1992 Coup, its Consequences and the Contemporary Crisis * Background * The Military Coup and its Impact * Indifference and Complicity...

Algeria: policemen confess they killed for the state John Sweeney, The Observer, January 12, 1998 LONDON: The ninja – slang for the Algerian junta’s feared Balaclava-clad paramilitary police...

No end to killing as government turns blind eye Algeria Interface, 22/12/00, www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=114&lng=e.htm While ordinary Algerians fast for the holy month of Ramadan, terrorists have gone on a...

Lightweight documentary fails to deliver Algeria Interface, 2 november 2000, www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=107&lng=e.htm A recent French TV documentary on the murder of Berber militant and folk singer Matoub Lounès was...

Hit list to lengthen? Algeria Interface, December 7, 1999 The roll call of assassinations in Algeria between 1993 and 1997 made for grim reading. There are now fears...

State shuns issue of missing thousands www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=60&lng=e.htm Nobody knows how many thousands of people have gone missing since 1992. What everybody does know is missing is a proper...

THE CIVIL HARMONY ACT An English translation of the controversial Civil Harmony Act (“Loi de la Concorde civile”) in its entirety. www.algeria-interface.com, www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=463&lng=e.htm 13.07.99 CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS...

Algeria’s generals risk foiling democracy again at their peril This week’s poll threatens the army’s grip, argues David Hirst The Guardian, April 12, 1999 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,309679,00.html When Algerians go...

Abdelkadar Hachani Islamic leader with a vision of national reconciliation in Algeria Douglas Johnson, The Guardian, November 26, 1999 http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,252172,00.html The Algerian Islamic leader Abdelkader Hachani lived in...

« The Rebel is Dead. Long Live the Martyr! »: Kabyle Mobilization and the Assassination of Lounès Matoub Paul A. Silverstein, Middle East Report online, 1998 http://www.merip.org/mer/mer208/silver.htm A Kenza a...

The Algerian crisis No End in Sight Ahmed Bouzid, January 1999, http://www.zmag.org/Zmag/articles/jan99bouzed.htm The fratricide that has engulfed Algeria since the cancellation of the 1992 parliamentary elections that were...

The Algerian Tragedy Continues by Ahmed Bouzid, Z magazine, December 2000, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Africa/AlgerianTragedyContinues.html The shocking violence that has been consuming Algeria since the cancellation of the 1992 parliamentary elections-elections...