Khaled Nezzar, general who brutally suppressed protests during Algeria's 'Black Decade' – obituary
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.