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Press Release


SG/SM/6343
30 September 1997


Press Release
SG/SM/6343


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

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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.