FBIS4-11996
"drnes065_a_94002"
FBIS-NES-94-065
Daily Report
1 Apr 1994
ARAB AFRICA
Algeria
FIS Accuses Authorities of `Wave of Killings'
FIS Accuses Authorities of `Wave of Killings'
NC0104143894 Paris AFP in English 1426 GMT 1 Apr 94
NC0104143894
Paris AFP
English
BFN
[Text] Paris, April 1 (AFP) -- The banned Islamic Salvation
Front (FIS) has accused Algerian authorities of killing more
than 200 civilians during anti-terrorist sweeps over the past
few days, according to a statement received here Friday.
The head of the FIS abroad, Rabah Kebir, who normally lives
in Germany, called on international human rights organisations
to condemn what he said was a wave of killings.
A number of anonymous callers have also phoned AFP in Paris
over the past few days to denounce what they say have been
"kidnappings" and "killings" by the army.
"Amongst the many examples of barbarity (...), one notes
over
the past few days the assassination of 82 civilians in Blida,
south of Algiers, of 120 others between Meftah and Sidi Moussa,
east of Algiers," said the statement dated March 31.
"Not a day goes by without word of collective killings
across
the country (...) people are taken from their homes and then
assassinated, slaughtered and their bodies abandoned in the
streets to create an atmosphere of fear amongst the population,"
the statement said.
Women are also victims of such "institutional terrorism",
the
statement said, referring to the killing of two women wearing
the Islamic veil at Boudaouaou, east of Algiers, on Tuesday.
Anonymous telephone callers said they had witnessed the
"execution" of at least 10 people Wednesday at Les Eucalyptus,
an Islamic fundamentalist stronghold in the southeast suburbs of
Algiers.
The callers said the 10 were killed in reprisal for the
death
of 10 soldiers and para-military police caught in an ambush.
One caller said he had seen a man deliberately "run over" by
a tank on the main street of Les Eucalyptus.
Algerian authorities have blamed the FIS for a wave of
terrorist attacks in the country since January 1992 when general
elections the Islamists were poised to win were annulled.