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| | Algerian War of Independence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Although the French government of the time considered all Algerian violence, including violence against the French military, to be crimes or terrorism, some French people, such as former anti-Nazi guerrilla and lawyer Jacques Verges have compared French resistance to Nazi German occupation to Algerian resistance to French occupation. | | | The war uprooted more than 2 million Algerians, who were forced to relocate in French camps or to flee to Morocco, Tunisia, and into the Algerian hinterland, where many thousands died of starvation, disease, and exposure. | | | Before the referendum, Abbas lobbied for international support for the GPRA, which was quickly recognized by Morocco, Tunisia, and several other Arab countries, by a number of Asian and African states, and by the Soviet Union and other East European states. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_Crisis
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| | The Algerian Tragedy Continues |
| | Officially, the Algerian authorities have invariably attributed all violence to the shadowy GIA, an alleged radical offshoot of the banned Islamist FIS. | | | Up to that point, the government had consistently maintained that the situation of violence it faced was not political in nature, but criminal, and insisted that the only effective strategy towards a solution was to physically eradicate those who were behind the violence. | | | Between 1992 and 1999, thousands of political detainees and prisoners of conscience were arrested and illegally held, often for years without trial. |
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Africa/AlgerianTragedyContinues.html
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| | Algeria and the Paradox of Democracy (by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed) - Media Monitors Network |
| | So we are obliged to be rather prudent.” Unfortunately for him and the Algerian junta’s other friends in the US, EU and their Arab client-regimes, the evidence contradicts his effective political appeasement of the junta’s policies. | | | The Observer quoted an Algerian asylum-seeker in Britain - who claimed he was a former agent in Algeria’s secret service - as saying the Paris bombs were part of a black propaganda war aimed at galvanising French public opinion against Islamic militants... | | | Sweeney and Doyle report that according to defectors from the Algerian security forces, “The relentless massacres in Algeria are the work of secret police and army death squads. |
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http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq4.html
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| | This is the introductory section of the monograph |
| | When Algerian voters went to the polls in November 1995 to cast votes in a flawed, but nonetheless significant, contested presidential election, their massive turnout alone showed a strong desire to find a political solution to the conflict that has been destroying their country. | | | Many Algerians, however, suspected that others in the military hierarchy had been angered by Boudiaf's independence and were not unhappy to see him removed. | | | Despite the current polarization of Algerian political life, we believe it is possible that some middle ground could be found between elements of the military and the Islamist opposition. |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~wbq8f/Algcris.htm
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| | Algerian Crisis, Western Choices - Middle East Quarterly - September 1994 |
| | Algerians widely believe that members of the power elite killed him because they saw in him a threat to themselves (he had started inquiring about the sources of their wealth and questioned their legitimacy as high state officers). | | | To find a political solution to the crisis, Zeroual has to secure strong support for his approach in the army and the government, and also among the most important elements of civil society, such as labor unions, political parties and personalities, professional organizations, and business groups. | | | Boudiaf led a large-scale crackdown against the Islamists and began a serious campaign against corruption in the higher echelons of the state and army hierarchies, only to be assassinated on June 29 by one of his security men. |
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http://www.meforum.org/article/144
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| | Algeria’s Civil Conflict and the Bankruptcy of the.. (by Abdelaziz Testas) - Media Monitors Network |
| | This is indeed very simplistic as the crisis actually began in 1986, which marks the beginning of the country’s economic collapse. | | | This is the same as saying that the interaction between political and economic factors caused the crisis and that the economy is the launching pad, while political factors have only magnified the conflict. | | | But this is where the wrestling with that professor began: I believe in the idea that the interaction between the economic situation and political reforms caused the crisis, while he believes that political repression is responsible for all what has been happening since 1992. |
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http://www.mediamonitors.net/testas2.html
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| | ALGERIA: HOW PIVOTAL IS IT? AND WHY? |
| | Even if the figures were inflated and the elections far from fully democratic, it seemed clear that many Algerians had cast their votes for Zeroual in the hope that he would use his new legitimacy to find a way out of the crisis. | | | For example, Algerians have looked down on Egypt and other Arab models; they have had little good to say about Tunisia or Morocco; and the Asian "tigers" have been dismissed with a blunt "we are not Chinese". | | | The regime, while hardly popular, seemed to hope that the excesses of the GIA would work to its advantage (which led some conspiracy-minded Algerians to believe that the regime was actually behind some of the GIA atrocities). |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~wbq8f/pivotal.html
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Arabisation as a democratic choice |
| | Mohamed Harbi is a prominent Algerian intellectual who emigrated to France in the mid-1970s due to differences with the authoritarian regime of the late President Hawari Boumedienne. | | | As a Marxist, Harbi defected from the Algerian branch of the French Communist Party at a historic junction, when the position of Algerian and French communists on the question of independence became highly ambiguous. | | | It is also an attempt to accommodate the fait accompli that young Algerians are Arabised, the Arabic press is widely circulated in Algerian markets, and Algerians favour Egyptian to US or French television series and programmes because they seem to address social problems similar to their own. |
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/392/re4.htm
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| | Private Peacemaking USIP-Assisted Peacemaking Projects of Nonprofit Organizations: Peaceworks: Publications: U.S. ... |
| | The Algerian government rejected the Platform document from the outset as an interference in Algeria& internal affairs; as a plot of international forces, including the Vatican; and as an attempt to manipulate the Algerian political debate. | | | In October 1996 Algerian political forces supportive of dialogue wrote an “Appeal for Peace” reflecting the principles of the Platform, signed by more than 20,000 Algerian political activists from across the political spectrum. | | | This remains its position, despite the fact that the Platform was negotiated and signed only by Algerians and was never under any direct or indirect influence of the Vatican (whose support for the initiative has always been lukewarm). |
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http://www.usip.org/pubs/peaceworks/smock20/chap3_20.html
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| | Human Rights WatchAugust 1998, Vol.10, No. 3 (E) |
| | The committee addressed Algerian human rights violations in other areas as well, including issues such as the independence of the judiciary, media censorship, and restrictions on the right to form political parties. | | | The authorities adamantly rejected widespread calls for an international inquiry, insisting that the crisis was entirely an internal matter in which the international community had no useful or legitimate role to play. | | | Because the mandate of the Human Rights Committee is to assess implementation of the ICCPR by the government in question, neither its findings nor the Human Rights Watch submission address in any detail the responsibility of the armed groups for the many atrocities they are alleged (or in some cases claim) to have committed. |
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http://www.hrw.org/reports98/algeria/ALGER988-01.htm
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| | Algeria: State and Society in the Global Era |
| | The Algerian parties and even the Algerian members of the official elite and the opposition elite have used France as a springboard, as a place to deal with domestic issues. | | | The Algerian struggle was a popular one at the time, and the goals were to get material and political support for the revolution. | | | It’s not, as Algerian officials frequently charge, a veiled effort to cast suspicion on the armed forces or to exonerate the Islamist groups, not at all. |
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http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/msp/AlgeriaStateandSociety.html
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| | Algeria -98 while the World is sleeping |
| | The World Association of Newspapers reports that it has received assurances from the Algerian government that press censorship and the suspension of publications, together with the arrest, detention and prosecution of journalists for their reporting, have come to a "definitive" end in the country. | | | The World Association of Newspapers has been given the green light by the Algerian government to sent a delegation to Algiers next week - to meet with senior government officials and voice its concerns about the lack of media freedom in the country. | | | Although new polls are due this year, attempts to expand democracy have been shelved, while violence escalates. |
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http://boes.org/actions/africa/north/algeria1.html
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| | DESIP Addendum 5 |
| | “Officially, the Algerian authorities have invariably attributed all violence to the shadowy GIA, an alleged radical offshoot of the banned Islamist FIS. | | | Doubts have surfaced, however, over the true identity of the GIA, with most Algerians coming to believe that factions within the security forces resolute on not negotiating a political settlement…have been behind at least some of the violence, and that the GIA is partially controlled and manipulated by security elements.” | | | His book embarrassed the French government as well as the Algerians since both Presidents Francois Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac “stood behind the Algerian administration and backed its war against the Islamic fighters.” Souaidia charges that the French government is “at the top of the list of countries who are aiding the generals.” |
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http://desip.igc.org/addendum5.html
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| | Le comptoir oriental |
| | Algerian economy The key figures of the Algerian economy | | | Algeria Watch / Petition for a board of inquiry; interesting Goods on the Algerian crisis. | | | PASSIA / Group of academics and Palestinian intellectuals |
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http://comptoiroriental.free.fr/English/politic.html
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| | II Journa:Algerian Voices, European Reactions: Examining Conflicts in Discourse, Information and Analysisl |
| | This internal conflict is aggravated by another antagonism, one generated by the West, situating Islam and the West oppositionally, "in Manichaean fashion." European media view the Algerian conflict as theologically motivated, and therefore beyond the reach of political and social analysis. | | | Their position resembles that of the army in present-day Turkey or the monarchy in Morocco: while allowing space for democratic participation and "civil society," they consider themselves as the polity's ultimate guardians, uniquely entitled to intervene at moments of crisis. | | | Algerians are "thirsty" for a state of law and an end to injustice; the way to this is through modernity and against patriarchalism. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol7no1/bonner.htm
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| | William Pomeroy, Algerian crisis worries the western powers |
| | The Chirac government in France is the main supporter of the Zeroual regime but is extremely cautious about expressing it publicly, for fear of a fundamentalist backlash from among the million or more Algerian immigrants in France (numerous bombings against the French policy have aready occurred in French cities, traced to the GIA). | | | Actually, from the very beginning of the FIS revolt there have been reports of U.S. State Department and CIA contacts with the Algerian fundamentalists. | | | Reaching for support, the Algerian government has submitted to terms of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which serve the interests of the transnationals. |
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http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/32/027.html
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| | afrol News - Concern over "media crisis" in Algeria |
| | - The latest crisis arises from actions against the country's lively private press, which is often critical of the authorities, IFJ says in a press release. | | | - We have to build a new alliance of solidarity between Algerian journalists and their colleagues in Europe and around the world, said Aidan White, General Secretary of the IFJ and chair of the discussion. | | | Among the proposals is a decision by the IFJ to relaunch its media crisis centre in Algeria, which was set up in the mid-1990s to assist journalists in the midst of a murderous terror campaign by fundamentalists who targeted journalists among other professional groups. |
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http://www.afrol.com/articles/13461
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| | Crisis States Research Centre: Globalisation, political change and political violence in Algeria and Egypt" |
| | This project will investigate the relationship between globalisation, political change and political violence in North Africa by comparing the Algerian and Egyptian experiences of economic liberalisation and political change over the last twelve years. | | | Hugh Roberts, 'The Left and the Algerian catastrophe', in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds), Fighting Identities: race, religion and ethno-nationalism, Socialist Register 2003, pp.152-171 | | | Crisis States Research Centre: Globalisation, political change and political violence in Algeria and Egypt" |
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http://www.crisisstates.com/Research/projects/mideast01.htm
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| | In a world of global relationships and responsibilities, we find the detachment of the international community unacceptable. | | | An archive of official public statements issued by AWI since its inception can be found at: | | | Algeria Watch International's goal is to involve "ordinary" people who would like to do something about the Algerian crisis. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~AlgeriaWatch/PAndS.html
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| | TAPPED: January 2005 Archives |
| | One would be hard-pressed to disagree with their critique of liberal opinion leaders and bloggers; something of an analogue might be found in the unrepresentatively high ratio of libertarians to cultural conservatives in the right-wing blogosphere. | | | This is a crisis for labor as such for any number of obvious reasons. | | | (That’s a bottom-line reason; the more profound reason why organized labor’s crisis in organizing is also a long-term crisis for liberalism is that, well, it really is impossible to imagine a serious progressive movement without organized labor at the center of it.) |
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http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/01
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| | The Algerian crisis |
| | also for journalists who work to bring the plight of Algerians to world | | | - Ask for true justice and righteousness in the Algerian government. | | | crisis forbid their dreams of a life together. |
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http://www.geocities.com/athens/agora/3518/algeria.html
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| | French Culture books: Martin Thomas, The French North African Crisis |
| | This book highlights the human tragedy involved and the divisive consequences within French metropolitan politics of intractable colonial conflict. | | | The French North African Crisis analyzes the postwar breakdown in French imperial rule in North West Africa, concentrating primarily upon the Algerian war of independence. | | | It further examines how far the protracted crisis of colonial control in North Africa shaped French foreign and security policy and this impacted upon Anglo-French relations, the western alliance and the wider process of decolonization. |
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http://www.info-france-usa.org/culture/books/releases/thomas.html
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| | History Channel - Speeches - Charles de Gaulle, president of France: On the Algerian crisis |
| | More than 100,000 Muslim and 10,000 French soldiers were killed in the seven-year Algerian War, along with thousands of Muslim civilians and hundreds of European colonists. | | | Instead, he granted Muslims the full rights of French citizenship and in 1959 declared publicly that Algerians had the right to determine their own future. | | | In France, the Algerian War had seriously polarized public opinion, and many feared the country was on the brink of army revolt or civil war. |
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http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_535.html
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| | Algeria Watch International |
| | Article on the Algerian economy by former prime minister A. Ibrahimi | | | Article on the Algerian economy by Mourad Benachenhou | | | Algerian violence -- October 21, 1997 (PBS Newshour) |
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http://www.pmwatch.org/awi
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| | Algeria: Personal Links |
| | Algerian American Association of Texas - The Algerian American Association of Texas was created in the fall of 1993, as a Not for Profit Corporation dedicated to the promotion of the Algerian culture, the contact between the Algerian American community in Texas, the Algerian people, and the American people. | | | Personal Some words about Habib Who are the Zaidi's Algerian Scientific Organizations President, Algerian Association of Medical. | | | This is a site of my favorite web sites of some Algerian newspapers- |
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http://www.siftthru.com/algeriapersonal_links.htm
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| | Crossing Borders: Islam, Democracy, and the State in Algeria |
| | It was also during the 1990s that outside powers, especially France, felt the Algerian crisis within their own borders and responded with measures which we are beginning to see now in the United States, including restrictions on immigration and travel. | | | Algerian movements of the 1990s such as the FIS (Front Islamique du Salut) and the GIA (Groupe Islamique Armé) anticipated, in certain ways, larger groups which have come to the fore more recently, including al-Qa'ida itself. | | | It also appears that the condition of women is one of the crucial features of the Algerian crisis, as well as of the political debate and/or impasse in other Islamic countries. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/CrossingBorders/algeriaconference.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Tourists shun Algerian Sahara after European hostage crisis |
| | This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | | | The only restriction is that we prefer to avoid the Mali border region," where some of the European trekkers' abductors are still believed to be hiding, said Ahmed Hamdaoui, president of a travel agency union in Tamanrasset. | | | And, said a 60-year-old retiree from the east of France, traveling with his wife and several off-road motorcyclists, "In any case, if we were to follow the recommendations of the ministry we wouldn't go anywhere anymore." |
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http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2003-11-13-algeria_x.htm
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| | The Algerian Crisis |
| | This book dissects the complex roots of the Algerian crisis. | | | The crisis has now spread to France, where Islamist groups have engaged in terrorist activities. | | | The authors make new policy proposals for the United States—jointly with France and the European Union—many of which should be implemented in cooperation with France and the European Union, to encourage Algeria's leaders to undertake political and economic reform. |
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http://www.brook.edu/press/books/clientpr/Carnegie/algeria.htm
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| | Algeria after the victory of the middle powers |
| | Most if not all political commentaries confirm that the Democratic National Rally is the most able party to get Algeria out of its crisis as it is supported and accepted by most Algerians and the army. | | | In spite of the great hopes after the recent election, the sword is still on the necks of the terrorist groups, the government and the people as this situation will not be over unless either the armed groups or the government is slain. | | | By establishing this party Zeroual appealed to all strata of Algerian people, which gave him a great basis on which he can depend. |
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http://www.latinonews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/971027/1997102701.html
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| | Present Crisis in Algeria |
| | Contains a statement and a report on violence in Algeria for 1996-1997. | | | Extensive coverage of the conflict, topics discussed include: Who is responsible for the violence? | | | as well as real life stories told by the Algerians. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~easokolo/algeria/present.htm
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| | Appendix A: Platform for a Political and Peaceful Solution to the Algerian Crisis | | | IV- The impact of the crisis on France and Europe: |
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http://home.worldcom.ch/hijra/alger_crisis.html
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