The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Algeria. This is an incomplete list; the total number of massacres reported is far more numerous.[1]
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ain-Defla massacre | 1994 mid-March | Ain-Defla | 80 | Several massacres occurred at Ain-Defla, including in 1994, 1997 and 2001.[2] |
| Baloul massacre | September 2, 1998 | Village of Baloul, Saïda | 40-60+ | [3] |
| Batna-Msila Road massacre | August 17, 1996 | Batna | 63 | Bus stopped at a fake roadblock and 29 people killed by hatchets and knives.[4] |
| Beni Ali massacre | August 26, 1997 | Beni Ali | 100 | |
| Béni Ounif massacre | August 15, 1999 | Béni Ounif | 29 | |
| Beni-Messous massacre | September 5, 1997 | Beni-Messous | 87+ | |
| Bentalha massacre | September 1997 | 15 km south of Algiers | 200-400 | "[T]he massacre of Bentalha in which 400 people had their throats cut one September night in 1997".[5] |
| Berrouaghia prison massacre | November 14, 1994 | 30-200 | ||
| Blida massacre | March 1994 | Blida | 82 | Massacres in Blida also occurred in 1997 and 2001. |
| Boufarik massacre | April 9, 1997 | Boufarik | 22 | The victims were hacked to death.[6] |
| Chouardia massacre | April 26, 1998 | Wilaya of Médéa | 40 | |
| Dairat Labguer massacre | June 16, 1997 | Dairat Labguer | 50 | Five nights earlier, another 17 had been killed 5 km away. |
| El Ouffia tribe massacre | 1832 | Algeria | 500+ | All the men, women and children of the El Oufia tribe were killed in one night.[7] |
| Guelb El-Kebir massacre | September 1997 | Beni Slimane | 52 | |
| Haouch Khemisti massacre | April 1997 | Haouch Mokhfi Khemisti | 93 | The 93 villagers were decapitated in 3 hours on the night of April 22–23.[8] |
| Isly massacre | March 26, 1962 | Algiers | 50-80 | Massacre of Pied-Noirs rioting against Algeria's independence by panicking French Algerian Muslims troops |
| Omaria massacre | April 23, 1997 | Omaria (near Médéa) | 42 | |
| Oran massacre of 1962 | July 5, 1962 | Oran | 95-453 | Mass killing of french settlers living in Algeria by members of the Algerian National Liberation Army.[9] |
| Oued Bouaicha massacre | March 26, 1998 | Djelfa | 52 (including 32 children) | The victims were killed by men carrying axes and knives, at Oued Bouaïcha in the municipality of Bouiret Lahdab; near Had Sahary. On the same day, a massacre occurred at Youb. |
| Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre | August 3, 1997 | Arib | 40-76 | |
| Ouled Rhia tribe massacre | 1845 | Dahra | 500-700 | The entire Ouled Rhia tribe was killed by suffocation in a cave.[7] |
| Rais massacre | August 29, 1997 | Rais (near Larbaa) | 800[10] | "Some were shot, some had their throats cut, the heads of babies were severed. A group of extremists who claimed to be motivated by Islam carried out the killings."[10] |
| Laghouat massacre[11][12][13][14] | December 3, 1852 | Ville de Laghouat | 2300 - 3000[15] | |
| Sétif and Guelma massacre | May 8, 1945 | Sétif | 6000-45000 | |
| Sid El-Antri massacre | December 1997 | Tiaret | 48-117 | |
| Sidi Daoud massacre | October 12, 1997 | Sig | 43 | The Sidi Daoud massacre took place outside the village of Sidi Daoud near Sig in western Algeria on the night of 12 October 1997. 43 people were killed at a fake roadblock. |
| Sidi-Hamed massacre | January 11, 1998 | Sidi-Hamed | 103 | 70 injured |
| Si Zerrouk massacre | July 27, 1997 | Larbaa | 47-58 | |
| Souhane massacre | August 1997 | Souhane | 64 | |
| Tadjena massacre | December 9, 1998 | mountain villages of Bouhamed and Ayachiche (just north of Tadjena) | 81 | In 2003, Tadjena was subjected to two additional massacres.[16] |
| Tadjena massacre (second) | May 25, 2003 | Tadjena | 7 | site of other massacres in 1998 and 2003[16] |
| Tadjena massacre (third) | May 26, 2003 | Tadjena | 14 | site of other massacres in 1998 and 2003[16] |
| Tenes massacre | May 4, 1994 | Ténès | 16 | |
| Thalit massacre | April 1997 | Thalit | 52 | 52 Of the 53 inhabitants were killed by slitting their throats. The villagers' homes were burned down afterwards.[17] |
| Tiarit massacre | April 2001 | Tiarit | 15 women and children.[2] | |
| Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December 1997 | December 30, 1997 | 4 villages | 78-272 (varying estimates) | |
| Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 | January 4, 1998 | Oued Rhiou | 172+ | |
| Youb massacre | March 26, 1998 | Youb | 11 | On the same day as the Oued Bouaicha massacre |
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- ^ "La vérité sur les massacres d'Oran". 13 September 2006.
- ^ a b Violent past haunts Algeria's fresh start By Jeremy Bowen BBC News, Algiers
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- ^ "Le 4 décembre 1852 – La prise de la ville de Laghouat". AU FIL DES MOTS ET DE L'HISTOIRE (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
- ^ Pein, Théodore (1871). LivreLettres familières sur l'Algérie: un petit royaume arabe. C. Tanera (Paris). pp. 363–370.
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- ^ [1] By Robert Le Tourneau
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