Algeria

Immediately after the nullification of the legislative elections in December 1991, Algeria was drawn into a civil war which lasted a decade. Both the army and the armed Islamic groups were to commit indescribable atrocities: summary executions, massacres of entire villages, thousands of enforced disappearances, torture, arbitrary detention etc. In February 2006, an amnesty was decreed, thereby preventing the victims from obtaining justice. Today, many families still remain with no news on the fate of their loved ones.