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Article: `We cannot do any more acting. The real drama is all around us'
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 21, 1995
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Around 300 intellectuals, writers and artists have been killed
in Algeria since 1992 when the government cancelled the general
elections won by the Islamic FIS party. One cold and wet morning
last month, accompanied by my 21-year-old daughter, I took the
train from Algiers to Oran to see how the Theatre Regional D'Oran
was coping after the assassination of its director, Abdelkader
Alloula, in March 1994. He was killed by Islamic fundamentalists on
his way to a conference on Arab theatre and modern society.
Masked soldiers swarmed around the train as it arrived in the
town. They pointed us in the direction of the huge brown gates of
the Moorish railway station with their kalashnikovs. When ...