The largest of the Souhane massacres took place in the small mountain town of

Souhane Souhane is a small mountain town between Larbaa and Tablat in the ''wilaya'' of Blida, Algeria, along the RN 8 highway about 25 km south of Algiers. Following the Souhane massacre The largest of the Souhane massacres took place in the ...

(about 25 km south of

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, between Larbaa and

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) on 20–21 August 1997. 64 people were killed, and 15 women kidnapped; the resulting terror provoked a mass exodus, bringing the town's population down from 4000 before the

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to just 103 in 2002. Smaller-scale massacres later took place on November 27, 1997 (18 men, 3 women, 4 children killed) and 2 March 2000, when some 10 people from a single household were killed by guerrillas. The massacres were blamed on Islamist groups such as the

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Souhane in 2005

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