List of this year's massacres

January 19th: 48 villagers slaughtered in Beni Slimane, south of Algiers.

January 19th: 48 villagers slaughtered in Beni Slimane, south of Algiers.

February 1st: 21 people killed by having their throats slit or being decapitated in Medea.

February 17th: 31 villagers burned alive and killed in Kerrach, 50 km south of Algiers.

March 19th: 32 civilians killed in Ouled Antar, 150 km south of Algiers.

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April 3th-4th: At least 84 killed in a series of massacres in central Algeria, including 52 people whose throats were slit in Thalit in the Medea region.

April 14th: 30 killed in attacks close to Boufarik, south of Algiers.

April 22nd: 93 massacred in a town close to Bougara.

April 23rd: 42 killed in Omaria, in the Medea region south of Algiers.

May 15th: 32 slaughtered in an attack close to Chebli.

June 14th: 13 killed and burned in village close to Algiers.

BO]June 16th: Armed group invades the Dairet Lebguer hamlet, slitting 50 people's throats.

July 5th-8th: 61 people killed in Medea region during weekend festivities.

July 12th-13th: 44 villagers' throats slit in an attack in Ksar El-Boukhari in Medea region.

July 19th-23rd: 56 slaughtered in separate raids over three days in villages of Yemma M'ghita and Benachour.

July 25th: 28 mutilated in attacks on hamlets in Hadjout region, 50 km south-west of Algiers.

July 28th: 51 killed after being burned, shot or slashed in a raid on Larbaa, south of the capital.

July 29th-30th: 41 massacred in Ain-Defla region, 120 km south of Algiers.

July 30th-31st: 100 killed in Blida and Ain Defla, south and south-west of Algiers.

August 3rd: 111 slaughtered in a new series of killings in Blida and Ain Defla.

August 21st: Armed gang kills 63 villagers in Souhane, between Larbaa and Tablat.

August 24th-25th: 117 dead, mostly women and children whose throats were slit, in four massacres in suburbs of Algiers and bomb attack in an Algiers market.

August 26th: 64 killed, including 30 women, in dawn attack on Beni Ali, south of Algiers.

August 28th: eight dead and 50 wounded in a bomb blast near a mosque in the Kasbah district of Algiers; five children killed in attacks near Cherchell in west Algeria.

August 29th: up to 300 villagers slaughtered overnight in Sidi Moussa district of Algiers.