Word: algerians
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...same time the government rounds up Islamists wholesale--and often times, worse. A vocal contingent of Algerian officials who have been dubbed 'Eradicators' still feel the best way to resolve the crisis is to quash any Islamist opposition mercilessly...
...philosophical justification for annulling the election was as follows: The Islamic parties gave every sign that once democratically elected, they would proceed to vote Algerian democracy out of existence. Some Front leaders publicly declared that their victory at the polls was nothing short of the actualization of the will of Allah, a mandate from heaven that could never be overturned...
...canceling the results of the election, the secular government also proved a fair-weather friend of the democratic process. When it looked like its secure hold on Algerian politics was about to give way, principle gave way first...
What has ensued is more than two years of undeclared war. The Islamists--and particularly the Armed Islamic Group, the most radical element in their camp--have perpetrated some gruesome acts of violence against Algerian politicians and intellectuals, women who don't wear the veil and, as of last year, foreigners...
...time they were written, such sentiments were heresy to the Left Bank literati and their grand panjandrum, Jean-Paul Sartre. Algeria was racked by violent attempts to liberate itself from colonialism; these would succeed two years after Camus's death. His pained middle position on the Algerian question -- deploring the atrocities committed by both sides -- drew scorn from the right and left, particularly Sartre and his circle, those existentialists who managed to find a place in their theory of limitless freedom for doctrinaire Marxism...