This village is surrounded by army garrisons. There were three and a half hours in which somebody could have intervened. You will find people who will tell you that the army was there just looking and the others were killing but you ask me as an Algerian citizen, I ll give you my point of view. Bizarrely he appeared to suggest that the villagers played a part in their own deaths by not reporting the massacre in advance. But over the years both sides have become factionalized, ideologies fractured.
Accountability is nil and civilians have been drawn into the fray.
In Rais, there are few jobs. These local youths are unemployed. Others have found employment in the ranks of militant groups splintered from any Islamic political control. They re little more than armed groups. Because there is high unemployment young people have no jobs so the terrorists find it easy to recruit them.