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Article: Berber City Manages to Remain An Oasis of Peace Amid Turmoil; `We Think Algeria Is Finished, and We Do Not Feel Involved'
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- The Washington Post
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- June 9, 1994
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Tizi Ouzou is a faded sepia snapshot of Algeria's past - a city
that reminds visitors of the way the rest of the country used to be
not long ago, but perhaps may never be again.
The main concern in this onetime French colonial administrative
center is how long it can remain peaceful, apparently immune to the
violent struggle between the army-based secular government and
insurgents determined to turn Algeria into an Islamic state.
So far, it has succeeded. Diplomats estimate 4,000 Algerians
around the country have been killed in the 29-month-old struggle,
only a few dozen of them here in the Kabyle heartland.
But residents of Algiers, the capital, 50 miles west of here,
say both sides ...