The Thalit massacre took place in
Thalit
Thalit () was a small hamlet in Algeria, all but one of whose 53 inhabitants were killed in 1997 in the Thalit massacre.
Populated places in Médéa Province
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village (
Médéa
Médéa ( ber, Lemdiyyet, ar, المدية ''al-Madiya''), population 123,535 (1998 census) is the capital city of Médéa Province, Algeria. It is located roughly 68 km south of Algiers.
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, near
Ksar el Boukhari
Ksar or qsar (Maghrebi Arabic: قصر ''qṣer'' or ڭصر ''gser'', plural ''qṣur''; Berber: ⵉⴴⵔⵎ ''aghrem'' or ''ighrem'', plural: ''igherman''), plural ksars, qsars, ksour or qsour, is the North African term for "fortified vil ...
), some 70 km from
Algiers, on April 3–4, 1997. Fifty-two out of the 53 inhabitants were killed by having their throats cut. The homes of the villagers were burned down afterward. The attack was attributed to
Islamist guerrillas.
See also
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Beheading in Islam
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List of massacres during the Algerian Civil War
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List of massacres in Algeria
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References
1997 in Algeria
April 1997 events in Africa
Algerian massacres of the 1990s
Conflicts in 1997
Islamism-related beheadings
Massacres in 1997
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