Souhane massacre
 | This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (February 2014) |
| Souhane massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of Algerian Civil War | |
| Location | Souhane, Algeria |
| Date | 20–21 August 1997 |
| Deaths | 64 villagers |
| Algerian massacres in 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massacres in which over 50 people were killed: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
1998 → | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The largest of the Souhane massacres took place in the small mountain town of Souhane (about 25 km south of Algiers, between Larbaa and Tablat) on 20–21 August 1997. 64 people were killed, and 15 women kidnapped; the resulting terror provoked a mass exodus, bringing the town's population down from 4000 before the massacre to just 103 in 2002. Smaller-scale massacres later took place on November 27, 1997 (18 men, 3 women, 4 children killed) and 2 March 2000, when some 10 people from a single household were killed by guerrillas. The massacres were blamed on Islamist groups such as the GIA.
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]
  | This Algerian history-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This massacre-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Massacres during the Algerian Civil War
- 1997 murders in Algeria
- Massacres in 1997
- August 1997 crimes
- August 1997 events in Africa
- History of Blida Province
- Islamic terrorist incidents in 1997
- Terrorist incidents in Algeria in the 1990s
- Terrorist incidents in Africa in 1997
- Kidnappings in Algeria
- Mass kidnappings
- Kidnapping in the 1990s
- Violence against women in Algeria
- Armed Islamic Group of Algeria attacks
- Algerian history stubs
- Massacre stubs