Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 9/29/1997
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of September 29, 1997
- Positive developments in the Algerian crisis
One of the Gulf countries played a major role in getting the views of the Algerian government and the ISF closer to stopping violence and adopting the method of negotiations Algeria, Politics, 10/2/1997 - Six people killed in Algeria
Terrorists killed yesterday 6 people, including two 70-year-old men, as government troops widened their siege on a radical rebel stronghold where over 100 villagers had been slaughtered since last April. Algeria, Military, 10/2/1997 - Over 50 Algerians killed before cease-fire
40 villagers, including 10 children, were slaughtered by Armed Islamic Group activists in a new attack in the massacre-ridden Belida province of southern Algeria. Algeria, Local, 10/1/1997 - Different views in Algeria, Mary Robinson says
The U.N High Commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson, said yesterday that the international society had to speak out about savage acts in Algeria even if the government objected. Algeria, Politics, 10/1/1997 - 25 terrorists killed in Algeria
In the most recent attack on civilians, gunmen in the Algerian town of Ain Adden killed 11 women, all of them teachers. Algeria, Military, 9/30/1997 - 50 terrorists killed by Algerian forces; French mull aid for Algerian truce
Rabah Kebir, the Germany-based head of the Islamic Salvation Front foreign wing, said in a statement it was time for the "sons of the people in the armed Islamic resistance" to take political steps to stop the bloodshed. Algeria, Military, 9/29/1997