Algeria

The call for the disarmament of Islamist militants by the leader of the banned Front Islamique du Salut (Islamic Salvation Front, FIS), Rabah Kebir, is certainly encouraging in terms of the process of national reconciliation in Algeria. Returning after years of self-imposed exile, Kebir declared 'I call on those who are still in the mountains to give up the fight to join the national community because reasons for jihad does no longer exist in Algeria. The time is for reconciliation now'. The cancellation of the 1992 parliamentary elections by the military, when FIS appeared set for victory, had led the

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