In the politics of

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, ''Les éradicateurs'' ("The Eradicators") are a faction within the

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n political and military establishment during that country's

civil war A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...

, which from 1992 pitted Islamist rebels against a military-installed government.

Description

''Les éradicateurs'' saw no room for compromise with Islamist politicians, and believed that militant organizations would be eliminated through force, refusing talks with their representatives as

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

s. Leaders included General

Mohamed Lamari Lt. Gen. Mohamed Lamari (7 June 1939 – 13 February 2012) ( ar, محمد العماري) was Chief of Staff of the Algerian army during most of the Algerian Civil War. Personal life He was born on 7 June 1939 in Biskra, to a family originall ...

and Prime Minister

Redha Malek Redha Malek ( ar, رضا مالك) (21 December 1931 – 29 July 2017) was an Algerian politician who served as Prime Minister of Algeria from 21 August 1993 to April 1994. During his short term of office, which came in the early years of the Alge ...

; they received support from various groups, most notably the

General Union of Algerian Workers The General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA, French: ''Union Générale des Travailleurs Algériens'', Arabic: الاتحاد العام للعمال الجزائريين) is the main Algerian trade union, established February 24, 1956 with the ob ...

(UGTA), but also smaller leftist and feminist groups such as the "ultra-secularist" RCD. They were popularly contrasted with ''

les dialoguistes ''Les dialoguistes'' ("The Dialoguers") is the French language popular term for a faction within the Algerian political and military establishment during that country's civil war, which from 1992 pitted Islamist rebels against a military-installe ...

'', ("The Dialoguers"), who held that

dialogue Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is c ...

and national reconciliation was the only way forward. The latter faction eventually gained the upper hand, and the

Bouteflika Bouteflika is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937–2021), Algerian politician *Saïd Bouteflika Saïd Bouteflika ( ar, سعيد بوتفليقة; ber, ⵙⵄⵉⴷ ⴰⵠⵓⵜⴼⵉⵇⴰ; born Janu ...

presidency (1999-2019) has been marked by amnesties and attempt to draw Islamists back into constitutional politics. The 1995

Sant'Egidio Platform The Sant'Egidio Platform of January 13, 1995 was an attempt by most of the major Algerian opposition parties to create a framework for peace and plan to end to the Algerian Civil War. The escalating violence and extremism, which had been provoked by ...

, which united most of the Algerian opposition parties, was in large part directed against the ''éradicateur'' tendency.

References

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