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Security forces behind more than 6,000 disappearances, says Algiers

An Algerian government commission confirmed on 31 March that security forces were responsible for the disappearance of 6,146 civilians during the decade-long struggle against Islamic rebels.'The 6,146 I am referring to are people who have disappeared because of the actions of agents of the state,' government official Farouk Ksentini told journalists. 'We cannot say whether they are dead or alive. We have said that they have disappeared,' he added.The ...

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