Sid El-Antri massacre

When

23 Dec 1997

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

48

Coordinates

35.37° N, 1.32° E

Description

1997 mass killings near Tiaret, Algeria

Placed at the town its description names, Tiaret.

1997 mass killings near Tiaret, Algeria

The Sid El-Antri massacre was a mass killing of civilians in the hamlets of Shari and Sidi el Antar, near Tiaret, Algeria, on the night of 23-24 December 1997, during the Algerian Civil War. Contemporary reports gave sharply different casualty figures. Algerian authorities said that 48 people were killed near Tiaret, while newspaper reports placed the toll for the two hamlets at between 81 and 120 dead.

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