WAJAH HODOH DEMOKRASI ALGERIA - by Ramli Abdul Rahim

Apabila FIS menang pilihanraya di Algeria pada pusiangan pertamapilihanraya kedua dibatalkan askar menjadi anjing suruhan membunuh demokrasi Amerika jaguh demokrasi karut bungkam tanpa sepatah kata

Amerika takut Ikhwan Mesir sebagaimana ia takut pada FIS di Algeria

Demokrasi jadi haiwan asing di bumi Arab Foreign Policy menyohorkan wajahyang hodoh minyak dan gas di bumi Arab

Ramli Abdul Rahim

11 Feb 2011

The Algerian Civil War was an armed conflict between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups which began in 1991. It is estimated to have cost between 150,000 and 200,000 lives.
More than 70 journalists were assassinated, either by security forces or by Islamists.

4] The conflict effectively ended with a government victory, following the surrender of the Islamic Salvation Army and the 2002 defeat of the Armed Islamic Group. However, low-level fighting still continues in some areas.

The conflict began in December 1991, when the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) party gained popularity amongst the Algerian people and the National Liberation Front (FNL) party, fearing the former's victory, cancelled elections after the first round. 

At this time the country's military effectively took control of the government, and president Chadli Bendjedid was forced from office. After the FIS was banned and thousands of its members arrested, Islamist guerrillas rapidly emerged and began an armed campaign against the government and its supporters.

They formed themselves into several armed groups, principally the Islamic Armed Movement (MIA), based in the mountains, and the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), based in the towns. The guerrillas initially targeted the army and police, but some groups soon started attacking civilians. 

In 1994, as negotiations between the government and the FIS's imprisoned leadership reached their height, the GIA declared war on the FIS and its supporters, while the MIA and various smaller groups regrouped, becoming the FIS-loyalist Islamic Salvation Army (AIS).

Soon after, the talks collapsed, and new elections, the first since the 1992 coup d'état, were held—won by the army's candidate (himself a former active participant, as were a significant number of other military officials, in president Bendjedid's FLN government), General Liamine Zéroual. Conflict between the GIA and AIS intensified. 

Over the next few years, the GIA began a series of massacres targeting entire neighborhoods or villages; some evidence also suggests the involvement of government forces. These massacres peaked in 1997 around the parliamentary elections, which were won by a newly created pro-Army party, the National Democratic Rally (RND).