According to the "Algerian Committee of Free Activists for Human Dignity and the Rights of Man", which says its claims are based on witnesses' testimony, 173 corpses were found in the forest of El Marsa near
Ténès
Ténès ( ar, تنس; from Berber TNS 'camping') is a town in Algeria located around 200 kilometers west of the capital Algiers. , it has a population of 65,000 people.
History
Ténès was founded as a Phoenician port in or before the 8th cen ...
(eastern
Algeria
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) on May 4, 1994 of people kidnapped by the security services and/or the pro-government paramilitary
Organisation of Young Free Algerians (OJAL) in the villages of
Taougrit,
Ouled Boudoua,
Sidi Moussa and
Tala Aïssa following the killing of 16 soldiers by
Islamist guerrillas
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics ...
in an ambush nearby on April 25. This figure appears to include 65 people who had been taken away from the Taougrit mosque on April 29 by uniformed men, and were found killed outside the village. However, it is unclear whether any of these claims have been independently substantiated, and the
Algerian Civil War
The Algerian Civil War ( ar, rtl=yes, الْحَرْبُ الْأَهْلِيَّةُ الجَزَائِرِيَّةُ, al-Ḥarb al-ʾAhlīyah al-Jazāʾirīyah) was a civil war in Algeria fought between the Algerian government and various Is ...
provides obvious potential motives for opposition groups to try to discredit the military. If the claims are correct, this would be one of the earliest large-scale
massacres of the Algerian civil conflict.
See also
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List of massacres in Algeria
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
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Bibliography
* Comité Algérien des Militants Libres de la Dignité Humaine et des Droits de l'Homme. ''Livre blanc de la répression (1991-1994)'', vol. 1, Éditions Hoggar, Genève, 1995, p. 77-84.
External links
Les massacres en Algérie, 1992-2004: Dossier no. 2(PDF)
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Massacres in 1994
Algerian massacres of the 1990s
Conflicts in 1994
Algerian war crimes
April 1994 events in Africa
1994 in Algeria
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