Si Zerrouk Massacre
The Si Zerrouk massacre took place in the Si Zerrouk neighborhood in the south of Larbaa, Blida, Larbaa in Algeria on 27 July 1997. About 50 people were killed. Background In 1997, Algeria was at the peak of a civil conflict that had begun after the military's cancellation of 1992 elections set to be won by the Islamic Salvation Front, Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). Two major Islamist guerrilla groups, Armed Islamic Group, Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and Islamic Salvation Army, AIS, and several minor ones, were fighting the government. Larbaa, Blida, Larbaa was a major center for the FIS's armed wing, the Islamic Salvation Army (AIS), which the GIA had recently declared war on; Mustapha Kartali, a former GIA chief who had split from him in 1995 and become head of the AIS's ''Katibat Errahamane'' brigade, was based in the area. Massacre On the afternoon of 27 July 1997, the electricity went out. That night, a number of guerrillas armed with shotguns, knives, and sabres (30 accor ...
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Si Zerrouk
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