ALGERIA: TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ETHNIC BERBERS MARCH THROUGH TIZI OUZOU TO REMEMBER SLAIN PROTEST SINGER LOUNES MATOUB
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ALGERIA: TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ETHNIC BERBERS MARCH THROUGH TIZI OUZOU TO REMEMBER SLAIN PROTEST SINGER LOUNES MATOUB
- Title: ALGERIA: TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ETHNIC BERBERS MARCH THROUGH TIZI OUZOU TO REMEMBER SLAIN PROTEST SINGER LOUNES MATOUB
- Date: 25th June 2001
- Summary: TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA (JUNE 25) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DEMONSTRATORS MARCHING IN STREET FOR THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF SHOOTING DEATH OF BERBER SINGER LOUNES MATOUB SINGING (2 SHOTS) 0.14 2. LV: CROWDS SHOUTING VIVA 0.20 3. PAN/WS: CROWDS FOLLOWING VAN WITH SPEAKERS ABOARD PAYING TRIBUTE TO SLAIN PROTEST SINGER (2 SHOTS) 0.33 4. VARIOUS OF CROWDS CLAPPING AND SHOUTING VIVA 0.46 5. VARIOUS: DEMONSTRATORS WEARING BLACK HEAD BANDS/ BANDANNA'S AND WAVING BLACK BANNERS IN SIGN OF MOURNING FOR SINGER LOUNES MATOUB (4 SHOTS) 1.19 6. SV: CROWDS WITH LARGE CLOTH PORTRAIT OF MATOUB 1.27 7. VARIOUS: MORE OF DEMO; WOMEN IN CROWD (6 SHOTS) 2.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 10th July 2001 13:00
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- Location: TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA
- Country: Algeria
- Reuters ID: LVACYHU682A5GD28L11FUENM3T88
- Story Text: Tens of thousands of ethnic minority Berbers marched
calmly through an Algerian city on Monday (June 25)
to remember a slain protest singer.
The demonstration in Tizi Ouzou, a city of 200,000
people 90 km (55 miles) east of the capital Algiers, called on
the authorities to re-open the investigation into the killing,
three years ago to the day, of beloved Berber musician Lounes
Matoub.
It was another strong show of Berber protest in the tense
Kabylie region of the North African country.
In the past two months, street clashes have erupted almost
daily in a wave of violence sparked by the death of a Berber
teenager in police custody in the region. It has left scores
of people dead.
Matoub was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in a 1998
ambush near his native village of Taourirt Moussa, 24 km (15
miles) south of Tizi Ouzou.
His death at 42 sparked anti-government riots in Kabylie
in which hundreds of Berber youths were wounded.
The current Berber revolt started in Kabylie but has
spread to other provinces, fuelled by deep anger among the
mainly young population over lack of jobs, housing shortages
and abuses by security forces, particularly paramilitary
gendarmes.
At least 55 protesters have been shot dead by security
forces in Kabylie in the latest bloodshed, and about 1,800
people have been injured, according to official figures.
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