The Beni Ounif massacre took place in Beni Ounif, in Bechar province, Algeria, near the Moroccan border, on 15 August1999. Guerrillas stopped a bus at a fake roadblock and killed some 29 people. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika suggested that the terrorists in question had found shelter in Morocco, but later took back the accusation. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... A roadblock is a temporary installation set up to control or block traffic along a road. ... Abdelaziz Bouteflika (عبجد العزيز بوتفليقة) (born March 2, 1937) is the president of Algeria (since 1999). ...
The massacre was reported by an MP in a televised parliamentary debate.
A nearby mountain was described as a major GIA base; the GIA is thus presumed to be responsible.
Tadjena was later subjected to a second smaller massacre on the 25 - 26 May 2003, when 7 people were killed on the 25th and another 14 from a single family on the 26th [1].
The Oued Bouaïcha massacre took place about 150 miles south of Algiers, near Djelfa, on March 26, 1998.
On the same day, another 11 were killed on the other side of the country at Youb (see map), at a place whose name is variously given as Adda Bensekrane or Bab Essekrane.
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