Algeria: A human rights crisis

Index Number: MDE 28/036/1997
Date Published: 1 December 1997
Categories: Algeria, Middle East And North Africa

This paper highlights the current situation of a country in which up to 80,000 people have been killed in almost six years of conflict. Thousands of civilians have been massacred, and a climate of fear has spread through the entire society as the civilian population has been drawn more and more into the conflict.