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Titolo: Algeria hit by two massacres

Ancora una volta il terrorismo della GIA si risveglia in Algeria.
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Thursday, 2 May, 2002, 11:22 GMT 12:22 UK 
Algeria hit by two massacres
 
Armed extremists have killed 31 people in two separate massacres in the
Tiaret region of western Algeria, officials said on Thursday. 
Twenty people were killed and five wounded in an attack at Ksar Chellala
- the worst single attack in Algeria this year. 
Another 11 people were killed in Sidi Khaled, on the outskirts of the
town of Tiaret itself, which is 340 kilometres (210 miles) west of
Algiers. 
Most of the victims of the overnight attacks are thought to be
civilians, but officials gave no further details. 
Increase in violence 
There has been an upsurge in violence in the Tiaret region in recent
weeks, in the run-up to legislative elections on 30 May. 
 
Violence continues despite tight security
 
Sixteen people, including eight children and four women, were killed
last week during another attack in the region. 
The hardline Armed Islamic Group (GIA) - one of two main rebel groups
fighting the secular government - is known to operate in the area. 
The GIA has stepped up its attacks since appointing Rachid Abou Tourab
as its new leader in March after his predecessor Antar Zouabri was
killed by security forces. 
Mr Tourab said in a statement shortly after his appointment that he
would pursue the movement's radical policies until Algeria was an
Islamic state. 
Since the beginning of the year more than 450 people, including about
150 Islamic fundamentalists, have been killed in Algeria's brutal civil
war. 
May elections 
Despite the increasing violence - and a threatened boycott in the
unstable Berber-speaking region of Kabylia - the country's
military-backed authorities are determined to press ahead with the
elections as scheduled. 
Civil war  
Erupted after 1991 election result was cancelled by army 
Islamists claimed enough support to take power 
Total death toll put at 150,000  
The poll is not expected to produce any change in the political system,
which the BBC's correspondent Hebah Saleh says is firmly in the grip of
the country's military and intelligence circles. 
Nor is the election likely to have an impact on regional security. 
All serious opposition has been marginalised, and critics of the regime
say Algeria is in a state of political paralysis. 
Prison fire 
The latest attacks come just a day after 14 prisoners were killed and 11
injured in a fire that spread through a high security jail in the
country's capital Algiers. 
The blaze in the Serkadji prison appeared to have been started by
prisoners who set fire to their mattresses after seeing a 19-year-old
inmate try to commit suicide. 
Most of the detainees at the prison are Islamists sentenced to death or
serving life sentences after being found guilty of terrorist activities. 
They include army officer Lembarek Boumaarafi, sentenced to death for
the assassination of President Mohammed Boudiaf in 1992. 
It is not yet known whether Boumaraafi was among the casualties.

Il più grande terrorista algerino è lo stesso Bouteflika.
La questione
necessita di un'approfondita analisi che mi prometto d'esporre al NG.
SiMohamed.
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 SiMohamed.
la solita teoria dell'equidistanza, la colpa è sempre del potere corrotto;
peraltro è la linea "Manifesto": in Italia infatti non se ne è mai parlato,
col pretesto che, tanto, il governo è corrotto. Alibi.