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Leader in Forced Disappearances
150,000
Civilians Massacred by Islamic terrorists Since 1992
Government Admits Killing 17,000 Islamists
Forced Arabization of Amazigh Culture
Armed
Bandits Operate Throughout Southern Algeria
Arab Algeria Claims "Chirac Pastures" Area in Arab Morocco
Arab Libya Claims 32,000 sqkm in Arab Algeria
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Freedom Score of Algeria (Not Free)
and Israel (Free)
Source: Freedom House (PDF, 187
KB)
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Human Development Index of Algeria
(0.704) and Israel (0.905) (PDF,
670 KB)
Source: United Nations Human
Development Report 2003
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Corruption Index of Algeria (2.7),
Israel (7.3), Germany (7.3) and USA (7.7)
Source: Transparency International (PDF,
1.8 MB)
 Algeria
Led World in Forced Disappearances (Human Rights Watch, Feb 27,
2003): "Algerian security
forces made "disappear" at least 7,000 persons, more than
the number recorded in any other country during the past decade
except wartime Bosnia."
ALGERIA.
TIME FOR RECKONING: ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES IN ALGERIA (Human Rights
Watch, Feb
2003)
Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices, Algeria - 2001 (Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor of U.S. Department of State):
"... 100,000 persons had been
killed during the previous 8 years. .. more
than 4,000 persons had disappeared after being detained by security
forces ... Terrorist
groups continued to kidnap scores of civilians. ... Armed groups
kidnapped young women and girls and held them captive for extended
periods for the purpose of rape and servitude ... The Amazighs are
an ethnic minority centered in the Kabylie region. Amazigh nationalists
have sought to maintain their own cultural and linguistic identity
in the face of the Government's continued Arabization program. The
law requires that Arabic be the official language and requires,
under penalty of fines, that all official government business be
conducted in Arabic ... The law does not prohibit specifically trafficking
in persons."
Human
Rights Watch Report 2002 (Algeria):
"... a conflict that has claimed
well over 100,000 lives.
Library
of Congress's Country Studies (Algeria)
CIA
World Factbook (Algeria)
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