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Article: The Agony of Algeria.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 13, 1997
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THE AGONY OF ALGERIA. By Martin Stone. Hurst; 274 pages; K35. Columbia University Press; $40
SOMETHING, say appalled outsiders, must be done about Algeria. But what, at this stage in the war, that something should be, nobody can say. Earlier arguments for a negotiated settlement have been overtaken by the near-daily butchery of civilians. By whom and to what end? Islamist terrorists, it seems, are to blame but news of the massacres is rationed, sometimes distorted and much goes unexplained. One need is for the Algerian authorities to allow more light, more independent investigation, into the blood-stained murk.
Martin Stone does not provide answers to the ...