Bentalha massacre - Definition and Overview

At the village of Bentalha, west of Algiers (Algeria), on the night of September 22-23, 1997, more than 200 villagers were killed by armed guerrillas. Responsibility for this massacre and that of Sidi Rais was claimed by the Armed Islamic Group in a press release from London on September 26 (according to Agence France-Presse.) The troops stationed immediately outside the town did nothing to stop it, according to survivors, nor were they attacked[1] (http://www.hrw.org/worldreport/Mideast-01.htm).

• Human Rights Watch report (http://www.hrw.org/worldreport99/mideast/algeria.html)
• Amnesty International report (http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE280361997?open&of=ENG-DZA)
• The Economist (http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=418247)
• Le Matin (http://www.lematin-dz.net/ledossierdujeudi14112002/les%20familles.htm)

See also: List of massacres