SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES OUTRAGE OVER FURTHER MASSACRES OF CIVILIANS IN ALGERIA

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SG/SM/6343

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES OUTRAGE OVER FURTHER MASSACRES OF CIVILIANS IN ALGERIA

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has learned with shock and outrage of further brutal massacres in Algeria in recent days in which numerous innocent civilians, including several women and children, were savagely killed.

He condemns in the strongest possible terms these cowardly and heinous murders and wishes to underline that such terrorist acts are totally unjustifiable, whatever the circumstances.

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