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Rais massacre

1997 CE · Algeria, Africa · War

The Rais massacre was one of Algeria's bloodiest massacres of the 1990s. It took place on 28 August 1997 at the village of Rais, near Sidi Moussa and south of Algiers. The initial official death toll was 98 people killed and 120 wounded; CNN said that hospital workers and witnesses gave a toll of at least 200, and up to 400.

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