In 1997, a single night of violence in Algeria became the insurgency's deadliest massacre
During the height of the Algerian Civil War in 1997, a single night of coordinated attacks on four remote villages resulted in one of the most brutal massacres of the decade.
In the final hours of 1997, four villages in Algeria's Relizane region became the site of a horrific massacre that claimed the lives of an estimated 400 civilians. This surge of violence was the deadliest episode in the country's 'Black Decade,' a brutal insurgency between the government and various Islamist groups.
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