Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 8/4/1997
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of August 4, 1997
- Armed Islamic Group leader speaks out
One of the Algerian leaders of the rebel Armed Islamic Group, 32 year-old Mahfoud Assouli, said, "Our fighters kill only those who deserve to die." Algeria, Politics, 8/8/1997 - Sudan's Christian Nubians being brutalized
African human rights group said on August 6, that the Sudanese forces have burned dozens of villages, looted cattle, raped women, kidnapped thousands of civilians and killed others in Nouba Mountains in the southern Kordofan province in central Sudan. Sudan-Algeria, Politics, 8/7/1997 - Terrorists Killed In Algeria
Algerian forces killed yesterday August 6, seven fundamentalists in southern Algeria after the salughters that terrorists launched on the villagers, a report said Algeria, Military, 8/7/1997 - Massacres continue despite Zeroual's vow to stop them
One hour after Algerian President Lamine Zeroual vowed on August 6 that rebels who have killed more than 700 civilians in less than two months would be hunted down for crimes, the rebels attacked two provinces in Algeria. Algeria, Military, 8/7/1997 - Gunmen kill 88 farmers in Algeria
88 people were massacred in villages south of the Algerian capital, many by having their throats slit, witnesses and hospital sources said. Algeria, Politics, 8/4/1997