The
Rais massacre, of August 29, 1997, was one of
Algeria's bloodiest
massacres of the 1990s. It took place 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. The figure given by the Algerian government to the
UN Commission on Human Rights (
E/CN.4/2000/3/Add.1] was 238. The BBC later quoted the figure of 800 killed
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