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...Algerian diplomats in particular accused the commissioner of overstepping her authority after she called the human rights situation in Algeria "intolerable...
ALGIERS: A European Union delegation began talks with Algeria Tuesday, prodded by a growing suspicion that government hardliners are complicit in the slaughter of as many as 1,100 civilians there in the past month. Allegations of government involvement were amplified last week when two Algerian policemen told a British newspaper they had participated, under orders, in massacres of civilians...
...Killing Season Just in time for Ramadan, Algerian Islamists step up a killing campaign...
ALGIERS: Bloodied by an Islamic rebellion against the secular government of Algeria, holidays there are a time to kill. More than 1,000 people have died in here since the Dec. 30 start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. And even as the Algerian government adamantly nixed a U.S. call for an international inquiry, reports surfaced Wednesday that 27 more people had been killed...
Fischer says that the international inquiry wasn't meant to implicate the government: "Its purpose would be to establish the facts of the massacres, some specific culpability--things which are notably absent in this case." Yet Algerian officials, who maintain the violence is only "residual" even as public squares teem with villagers seeking refuge, continue to refuse any outside interference. For many Algerians it will be a long, terrifying January...