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.
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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!