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Algeria: Berber revolt quelled with 62 deaths in four days ALGERIA: Little hope of justice for nation's ancient people despite government promise of `full investigation' into police killings of protesters
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THE BERBERS wrecked the Byzantine rule of north Africa. Justinian
the Second's prefect was defeated by the Berber Garmul. The Berbers -
the men of Kabyle - fought the Romans, the Arabs, the Turks and
finally the French, who took 29 years to subdue the mountains around
Tizi Ouzou. In the independence war of 1954-62, the Berber names of
Amirouche and Ramdane were synonymous with the National Liberation
Army's "Wilaya 3" resistance to colonial rule. Little wonder, then,
that Algeria's President,...
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Algeria: Berber revolt quelled with 62 deaths in four days; ALGERIA: Little hope of justice for nation's ancient people despite government promise of `full investigation' into police killings of protesters.(Foreign News)
The Independent (London, England)
; THE BERBERS wrecked the Byzantine rule of north Africa. Justinian the Second's prefect was defeated by the Berber Garmul. The Berbers - the men of Kabyle - fought the Romans, the Arabs, the Turks and finally the French, who took 29 years to subdue the mountains around Tizi Ouzou. In the
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THE OTHER INTIFADA ALGERIA'S BERBER MINORITY RESISTS ASSIMILATION INTO ARAB CULTURE. AFTER A TWO-YEAR UPRISING AGAINST MILITARY RULE, CAN THEY HELP REDEFINE GOVERNANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
The Boston Globe
; "WE ARE ARABS, we are Arabs, we are Arabs!" proclaimed Ahmed Ben Bella, soon to be the first president of independent Algeria, just after being released from a French colonial prison in 1962. A colleague of his reportedly muttered that if Ben Bella repeated those words enough times, "they just
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Facing Down Intrusions in Algeria; After Romans and Phoenicians, Kabyles Await Fundamentalists
The Washington Post
; Buoyed by an ancient tradition of fighting to remain different, the Kabyles of Algeria say they are determined to stand up to the triumphant Islamic fundamentalists the same way they have resisted invaders since the times of Carthage and the Roman empire. Descendants of North Africa's original
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Berbers bring Algeria to brink of insurrection
The Independent - London
; 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
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Berbers bring Algeria to brink of insurrection.(Foreign News)
The Independent (London, England)
; 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
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Berber City Manages to Remain An Oasis of Peace Amid Turmoil; `We Think Algeria Is Finished, and We Do Not Feel Involved'
The Washington Post
; Tizi Ouzou is a faded sepia snapshot of Algeria's past - a city that reminds visitors of the way the rest of the country used to be not long ago, but perhaps may never be again. The main concern in this onetime French colonial administrative center is how long it can remain peaceful, apparently
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One man one vote?
Middle East
; ... voted, with three per cent endorsing Bouteflika. Riot police clashed with demonstrators in Algiers, Bejaia and Tizi Ouzou after news of Bouteflika's victory, and five of the six former candidates called a general strike during his inauguration on 26 April. However ...
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Berbers boycott Algerian polls `to honour martyrs'.(Foreign News)
The Independent (London, England)
; LET'S NOT betray the memory of the martyrs of the Black Spring, screams the editorial in the Berber newspaper Racines as it calls for a boycott of today's local elections in Algeria. Let's honour the blood of our valiant martyrs. The martyrs are the 117 young Berbers cut down by police gunfire in
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Berbers boycott Algerian polls `to honour martyrs'
The Independent - London
; "LET'S NOT betray the memory of the martyrs of the Black Spring," screams the editorial in the Berber newspaper Racines as it calls for a boycott of today's local elections in Algeria. "Let's honour the blood of our valiant martyrs." The martyrs are the 117 young Berbers cut down by police gunfire
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The swelling anger of Algerians; Rioting in Algeria; Swelling protest in Algeria.(conflict between Berbers and Arabs)(International)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; THE anger that has been swirling for weeks around the Berber-speaking area of Kabylia has now spilled into other Algerian regions, with riots erupting in towns that are regarded as Arab rather than Berber. Protesters, armed with stones and metal bars, have attacked the premises of state companies,
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