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Recently, large numbers of performers, artists and intellectuals were marked for murder. Since the beginning of February, assassins have executed a prominent feminist leader, a popular singer, the director of the National Algerian Theater and the president of a university student union. In December, Said Mekbel, editor of the Algiers newspaper Le Matin, wrote that a journalist is someone ``who makes a wish not to die with his throat slashed.'' The day after he wrote that statement, Mekbel got his wish: his killers shot him in the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: THE PRISON OF BLOOD | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

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