93 SLAIN IN ALGERIA, GOVERNMENT SAYS.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Algeria's authoritarian government said Tuesday that Islamic radicals had hacked Modified. Attacked. Having code altered. See hack and hacker. to death 93 people, 43 of them women and girls, in an overnight raid on a village near Algiers. Such a toll would make the massacre Massacre See also Genocide. Acre after conquering city, Richard I executed 2700 Muslims (1191). [Eur. Hist.: Bishop, 83–84] Armenian Massacre Turks decimated Armenian population, dispersed survivors (1896). [Eur. Hist. one of the deadliest incidents in five years of violent struggle in the former French colony. The war began in 1992 after the military-backed government canceled an election that a coalition of Muslim parties seemed certain to win. There was no immediate independent verification of the details of the attack. The government's battles with its Muslim opponents have taken an estimated 60,000 lives in the past five years. Government forces have inflicted at least as many casualties as the rebels, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Algerian exiles here and leaders of the opposition Muslim parties that have been banned from running in parliamentary elections the government has scheduled for June 5. |
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