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The Wilaya of Relizane Massacre s of 4 January , 1998 took place in three remote villages around Oued Rhiou about 150 miles (240 km) west of Algiers , during the Algeria n conflict of the 1990s. At least 172 villagers were killed in a single day of Ramadan :
  • at Had Chekala , no residents survived; more than thirty guerrillas burned the village down afterwards

  • at Remka (or Ramka, or Meknessa; see map ), 117 killed. A survivor told ''La Tribune'' "One pregnant woman had her fetus cut out and slaughtered."

  • at Ain Tarik , an unknown number were killed


The massacres were attributed to the GIA , and had been preceded some days before by the Wilaya Of Relizane Massacres Of 30 December 1997 . They provoked mass population flight from the afflicted area - the population of Ramka, for instance, dropped from 9,200 in 1990 to 5,215 in 1998 - and led to international condemnation and calls for an independent investigation.


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