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Major General Khaled Nezzar, who has died aged 86, was the Algerian army’s mailed fist in the suppression of anti-government riots in 1988 and in the war against the Islamists in the 1990s, precursors of the drive for change which would again be thwarted during the Arab Spring in the century to come.
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Human rights organisations pick and choose whose freedom of speech – and other human rights – they are going to defend
On June 2, 1992, Edward Djerejian, a State Department veteran then serving as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, expressed concern over the emergence in Algeria of the Front Islamique du Salut, an Islamist political party that was leading in election polls before its disbanding by the military, triggering a decadelong civil war.
The Algerian Insurrection Quevedo said of the Spaniards: "they haven't been able to be historians but they deserved to be". This is still true of the 1936 Spanish Revolution: others have written the history. It's too early to write the history of the insurrection that started in Algeria during spring 2001, but it's not too late to defend it; and to fight the deep indifference as we see it in France. From Black Flag #222 (2002). To illustrate the significance of this uprising, we need to look at the actions and declarations of the Algerian insurgents. Their dignity, understanding and courage...