Algeria considers compensation for 13,000 victims of 1990's violence
10/03/2008
As part of Algeria's peace and national reconciliation programme, authorities are considering financial compensation for more than 13,000 people who were victims of the carnage that overtook the country in the 1990's, APS quoted National Solidarity Minister Djamal Ould Abbes as saying on Saturday (March 8th).
"13,014 compensation requests from the victims of the national tragedy have been received for consideration under the implementation of the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation," Ould Abbes said. In addition to offering amnesty to Islamist fighters who lay down arms, the Charter calls for compensation to families who have been impoverished due to the death, absence or firing of relatives who joined the rebellion, provided they were not responsible for rapes, massacres or bombings.
hamide Posted 2008-03-10
Yes, my wife and her sister lost their father. He was a gendarme, who defended the citizenry during these events. *He was struck down and his two orphans had to immediately get married.* And now, they want to compensate the families of these terrorists!? These is a real scandal, even after having just pardoned them! I am sickened by this!
hamza Posted 2008-03-11
Of course they need to calm the game down so that they can continue to stay in their places. In any case, the money will not be leaving their pockets!
brigui zahia Posted 2009-04-12
I am the victim of a tragedy: my husband was abducted by some unknown men from his workplace on 6 May 1995. I have two children, now ages 25 and 17. Even now, 12 April 2009, I have yet to be compensated in spite of my repeated trips to Oran and Tlemcen. Ever since, I have lived at my parents in Oran. I requested social housing, but they told me they have nothing in civil code concerning victims of tragedy. Before my husband disappeared, we lived in government housing. I thought it best to return the keys in order to have a place where my children and I would live and everything would work properly. I did everything I could in order not to rub salt in my wounds, because the past is the past and you have to turn the page. My only wish is that my children will live in happiness in their country and without bitterness towards anyone. This is my duty and, thanks to God, my son loves his country and does not want to go abroad even for a vacation and my daughter wants to be a surgeon and do charity for her country, Algeria. We love our country and we hope to do as much good as we can around us. Long live Algeria! May God protect our president and all the Algerians without exception. –From a family that was victim to the national tragedy
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