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Transitional Justice Processes
Fearing a victory for the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), the National Liberation Front (FLN) cancelled elections in December 1991, allowing the Algerian military to take control in a coup. Armed conflict erupted between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups, which resulted in a 10-year civil war. The army repressed civilians suspected of supporting...
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Truth Commissions
The Ad Hoc Inquiry Commission in Charge of the Question of Disappearances (2003-2005) was formed as a subsidiary organ within the National Consultative Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Algeria’s permanent human rights institution. According to the presidential decree laying out its mandate, the commission was invested with a specific mission and...
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Regional Economic Communities Frameworks
According to its founding treaty, the aims of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) are strengthening the ties of brotherhood which link the member states and their peoples to one another, achieving progress and prosperity of their societies and defending their rights, contributing to the preservation of peace based on justice and equity, pursuing a common...
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Peace Agreements
Chapter 1 of the Agreement deals with the transitional agreements, and provides inter alia for the organisation of elections, public and individual liberties to be restored within the shortest period, persons interned and in detention would be released and amnesty would be proclaimed immediately, refugees and internally displaced persons would be assisted in returning, and...
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