The Si Zerrouk massacre took place in the Si Zerrouk neighborhood in the south of Larbaa in
Algeria on 27 July 1997. About 50 people were killed.
On the afternoon of 27 July 1997, the electricity went out. That night, a number of guerrillas armed with shotguns, knives, and sabres (30 according to The Economist, 100 according to Liberte) stormed into the area by night and started breaking into homes and cutting the residents’ throats, killing men, women, and babies, and burning some victims alive. They also blew up their houses. About 50 people (most papers reported 47; Le Matin reported 58) were killed.
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