Algeria: Treatment of foreign language teachers by Islamists
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 26 April 2000 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | DZA34252.E |
| Reference | 2 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Algeria: Treatment of foreign language teachers by Islamists, 26 April 2000, DZA34252.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad4e84.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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A November 1997 Amnesty international report states that:
Armed groups such as the GIA have in the past killed teachers and issued death threats both against teachers of a specific subject, like French language, and against teachers in general.
A November 1996 Amnesty international reports states that:
Communiques signed by the GIA or other armed groups repeatedly threatened with death civil servants and employees of state companies, French-language teachers, wives and relatives of members of the security forces, sellers of newspapers and cigarettes, hairdressers, beauticians, women who do not wear the hidjab or who go to mixed schools, college and university students, conscripts, musicians, and many others.
No further information on the treatment of foreign language teachers could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
References
Amnesty International. November 1997. Algeria Civilian Population Caught in a Spiral
of Violence. (AI Index: MDE 28/23/97)
_____. November 1996. Algeria: Fear and Silence: A Hidden Human Rights Crisis.
(MDE 28/11/96).
< http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/1996/MDE/52801196.htm> [Accessed 26 Apr. 2000]
Additional Sources Consulted
Amnesty International. 3 March 1999. Algérie: qui sont les disparus ? (MDE 28/02/99).
IRB databases
Human rights Watch (HRW). News from Middle East Watch.
LEXIS/NEXIS
Martinez, Luc. 1998. La guerre en Algérie 1990-1998. Paris: Éditions Karthala.
REFWORLD
Resource Centre's Amnesty International Files: Algeria
Salgon, Jean-Michel. 1999. Violence ambigües: aspects du conflit armé en Algérie. Paris: Centre des hautes études sur l'Afrique et l'Asie moderne.
Tahon, Marie-Blanche. 1998. Algérie: la guerre contre les civils. Ottawa: Éditions Nota Bene.
Internet Sources including:
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
World News Connection (WNC)
Search Engines including:
FAST
Metacrawler.