ALGERIA - Apr. 29 - Berber Protests.(Brief Article)

From: APS Diplomat Recorder | Date: May 5, 2001 | Copyright information

Students, led by teachers and joined by residents, demonstrate in the main city of the north-eastern Berber-speaking Kabylie region, Tizi Ouzou, and its second city, Bejaia, demanding that gendarmes leave the region and be replaced by other security forces. Chanting anti-government slogans in support of Hassan Hattab (a local leader of an armed Islamic group that attacks gendarmes and other military personnel), they attack gendarmerie barracks, set vehicles on fire, block roads an...

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