The Beni Ali massacre took place in the mountain hamlet of
Beni Ali, south of
Algiers near
Chrea, on 26 August 1997. Sixty-four (according to ''
The New York Times
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'' and
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) or 100 people (according to
Amnesty International) were killed. Three days later came the larger
Rais massacre
The Rais massacre, of August 29, 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; C ...
.
See also
*
List of massacres in Algeria
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