Berbers bring Algeria to brink of insurrection.(Foreign News) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: June 20, 2001| Author: Fisk, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2001 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THERE COMES a time when the people have had enough. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the "velvet revolution" in Prague. And now Algeria. Could it be that the citizens of a country that should be as rich as Saudi Arabia - a land of immense oil and gas wealth, the 10th largest nation in the world - are turning against the old men of "le pouvoir", the "authorities"? For what started as a Berber revolt in Tizi Ouzou after the death of a schoolboy in police custody is fast turning into an i...