The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Algeria. This is an incomplete list; the total number of massacres reported is far more numerous.[1]
Name
Date
Location
Deaths
Notes
Ain-Defla massacre
1994 mid-March
Ain-Defla
80
Several massacres occurred at Ain-Defla, including in 1994, 1997 and 2001.[2]
Baloul massacre
September 2, 1998
Village of Baloul, Saïda
40-60+
Batna-Msila Road massacre
August 17, 1996
Batna
63
Bus stopped at a fake roadblock and 29 people killed by hatchets and knives.[3]
Beni Ali massacre
August 26, 1997
Beni Ali
100
Béni Ounif massacre
August 15, 1999
Béni Ounif
29
Beni-Messous massacre
September 5, 1997
Beni-Messous
87+
Bentalha massacre
September 1997
15 km south of Algiers
200-400
"[T]he massacre of Bentalha in which 400 people had their throats cut one September night in 1997".[4]
Berrouaghia prison massacre
November 14, 1994
30-200
Blida massacre
March 1994
Blida
82
Massacres in Blida also occurred in 1997 and 2001.
Boufarik massacre
April 9, 1997
Boufarik
22
The victims were hacked to death.[5]
Chouardia massacre
April 26, 1998
Wilaya of Médéa
40
Dairat Labguer massacre
June 16, 1997
Dairat Labguer
50
Five nights earlier, another 17 had been killed 5 km away.
El Ouffia tribe massacre
1832
Algeria
500+
All the men, women and children of the El Oufia tribe were killed in one night.[6]
Guelb El-Kebir massacre
September 1997
Beni Slimane
52
Haouch Khemisti massacre
April 1997
Haouch Mokhfi Khemisti
93
The 93 villagers were decapitated in 3 hours on the night of April 22–23.[7]
Isly massacre
March 26, 1962
Algiers
50-80
Massacre of Pied-Noirs rioting against Algeria's independence by panicking French Algerian Muslims troops
Omaria massacre
April 23, 1997
Omaria (near Médéa)
42
Oran massacre of 1962
July 5, 1962
Oran
95-453
Mass killing of french settlers living in Algeria by members of the Algerian National Liberation Army.[8]
Oued Bouaicha massacre
March 26, 1998
Djelfa
52 (including 32 children)
The victims were killed by men carrying axes and knives, at Oued Bouaïcha in the municipality of Bouiret Lahdab; near Had Sahary. On the same day, a massacre occurred at Youb.
Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre
August 3, 1997
Arib
40-76
Ouled Rhia tribe massacre
1845
Dahra
500-700
The entire Ouled Rhia tribe was killed by suffocation in a cave.[6]
Rais massacre
August 29, 1997
Rais (near Larbaa)
800[9]
"Some were shot, some had their throats cut, the heads of babies were severed. A group of extremists who claimed to be motivated by Islam carried out the killings."[9]
Laghouat massacre[10][11][12][13]
December 3, 1852
Ville de Laghouat
2300 - 3000[14]
Sétif and Guelma massacre
May 8, 1945
Sétif
6000-45000
Sid El-Antri massacre
December 1997
Tiaret
48-117
Sidi Daoud massacre
October 12, 1997
Sig
43
The Sidi Daoud massacre took place outside the village of Sidi Daoud near Sig in western Algeria on the night of 12 October 1997. 43 people were killed at a fake roadblock.
Sidi-Hamed massacre
January 11, 1998
Sidi-Hamed
103
70 injured
Si Zerrouk massacre
July 27, 1997
Larbaa
47-58
Souhane massacre
August 1997
Souhane
64
Tadjena massacre
December 9, 1998
mountain villages of Bouhamed and Ayachiche (just north of Tadjena)
81
In 2003, Tadjena was subjected to two additional massacres.[15]
Tadjena massacre (second)
May 25, 2003
Tadjena
7
site of other massacres in 1998 and 2003[15]
Tadjena massacre (third)
May 26, 2003
Tadjena
14
site of other massacres in 1998 and 2003[15]
Tenes massacre
May 4, 1994
Ténès
16
Thalit massacre
April 1997
Thalit
52
52 Of the 53 inhabitants were killed by slitting their throats. The villagers' homes were burned down afterwards.[16]
Tiarit massacre
April 2001
Tiarit
15 women and children.[2]
Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December 1997
December 30, 1997
4 villages
78-272 (varying estimates)
Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998
January 4, 1998
Oued Rhiou
172+
Youb massacre
March 26, 1998
Youb
11
On the same day as the Oued Bouaicha massacre
^An Anatomy of the Massacres", Ait-Larbi, Ait-Belkacem, Belaid, Nait-Redjam, and Soltani, in An Inquiry into the Algerian Massacres, ed. Bedjaoui, Aroua, and Ait-Larbi, Hoggar: Geneva 1999.
^ abThe Middle East and North Africa 2003, Routledge, 22 Nov 2002, page 175
^The Middle East and North Africa, Volume 50
By Europa Publications Limited, Routledge, 30 Oct 2003, page 179
^Algeria: Thinking the unthinkable The Economist, Nov 9th 2000, from the print edition
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