1997 mass killing by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
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98 to 400 villagers 800 killed according to the BBC
Injured
120
Perpetrator
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
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Algerian Civil War
Beginning of war 1991–1994
1990 Algerian local elections
Guemmar
1991 legislative elections
1992 coup
Assassination of Mohamed Boudiaf
Algiers
Blida
Assassinations of journalists
Escalation 1994–1996
Tazoult
Tenes
Ain Allah
Berrouaghia
Air France Flight 8969
Algiers
Sundus
Serkadji
Ain Defla
Ghardaïa
France
Massacres and reconciliation 1996–1999
Algiers
Tibhirine
Tamesguida
Thalit
Haouch Khemisti
Omaria
Chouardia
1997 legislative elections
M'sila
Si Zerrouk
Oued El-Had and Mezouara
Souhane
Beni Ali massacre
Rais
Beni Messous
Guelb El-Kebir
Bentalha
Sidi Daoud
Sid El-Antri
1st Relizane
2nd Relizane
Sidi-Hamed
Oued Bouaicha
Tadjena
Defeat of the GIA 1999–2002
1999 presidential election
Beni Ounif
1999 Algerian Civil Concord referendum
Assassination of Abdelkader Hachani
Killing of Antar Zouabri
Sahara
Sétif
Algerian massacres in 1997
Massacres in which over 50 people were killed:
Thalit massacre
3–4 April
Haouch Khemisti massacre
21 April
Daïat Labguer (M'sila) Massacre
16 June
Si-Zerrouk massacre
27 July
Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre
3 August
Souhane massacre
20–21 August
Beni-Ali massacre
26 August
Rais massacre
29 August
Beni-Messous massacre
5–6 September
Guelb El-Kebir massacre
19 September
Bentalha massacre
22 September
Sid El-Antri massacre
23–24 December
Wilaya of Relizane massacres
30 December
1998 →
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The Rais massacre, of August 28, 1997, was one of Algeria's bloodiest massacres of the 1990s. It took place at the village of Rais, near Sidi Moussa and south of Algiers. The initial official death toll was 98 people killed and 120 wounded; CNN said that hospital workers and witnesses gave a toll of at least 200, and up to 400. The figure given by the Algerian government to the UN Commission on Human Rights was 238.[1] The BBC later quoted the figure of 800 killed.[2]
In 1997, Algeria was at the peak of a brutal civil conflict that had begun after the military's cancellation of 1992 elections set to be won by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). The poor farming village of Rais 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.
^Asma Jahanhir (2 February 2000). "Civil And Political Rights, Including Questions Of: Disappearances And Summary Executions". UN Commission on Human Rights. Archived from the original on 20 April 2001. Retrieved 13 August 2023. The Hais Rais/Sidi Moussa case. During the night of 29 August 1997 a terrorist group attacked the farming village of Hais Rais located on the outskirts of the commune of Sidi Moussa, killing 238 people.
^"Violent past haunts Algeria's fresh start". 1 October 2005. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
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