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In July 2009, the retired French general François Buchwalter, who was military attaché in Algeria at the time, testified to a judge that the monks had been accidentally killed by an Algerian government helicopter during an attack on a guerrilla position, then beheaded after their death to make it appear as though the GIA had killed them. [2 ...
Charles-Marie Christian de Chergé, O.C.S.O (Colmar, 18 January 1937 – 21 May 1996), was a French Cistercian, one of the seven monks kidnapped from the Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria, and believed to have been later killed by Islamists in 1996. He was beatified with eighteen others, the Martyrs of Algeria, on December 9 ...
The 19 martyrs of Algeria were a group of nineteen individuals slain in Algeria between 1994 and 1996 during the Algerian Civil War. [1] They all were priests or professed religious belonging to religious congregations, including seven Trappist Cistercian monks; one was a bishop .
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 ...
Over four centuries after her death, Tunisian hagiographer al-Mālikī seems to have been among the first to state she resided in the Aurès Mountains. Seven centuries after her death, the pilgrim at-Tijani was told she belonged to the Lūwāta tribe. [12] When the later historian Ibn Khaldun came to write his account, he placed her with the ...
In 1958, during the Algerian war, Fellaghas raided the monastery. In 1962, there were just nine monks left. [1] After the independence of Algeria, the closing of the monastery was considered by the monks, but the death of the General Abbot of the Trappists, Dom Gabriel Sortais during the same night as the signing of the decree of the closure of the monastery, suspended the decision.
Saudi authorities control the flow of pilgrims through quotas, allowing each country one pilgrim for every thousand Muslim citizens. ... an Algerian pilgrim, as he was standing in the Grand Mosque ...
Ali Ammar (Arabic: علي عمار ; 14 May 1930 – 8 October 1957), better known by his nom de guerre Ali la Pointe, was an Algerian militant and prominent revolutionary and guerilla figure of the Algerian War.