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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Sétif and Guelma massacre [a] (also called the Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata massacres [b] or the massacres of 8 May 1945 [c]) was a series of attacks by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians in 1945 around the market town of Sétif, west of Constantine, in French Algeria.
Gildo's original death certificate, issued after a 1995 law allowed families to request the document for the missing, left his cause of death blank. His remains, thought to be in a mass grave with ...
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 ...