Sid El-Antri massacre

1997 mass killings near Tiaret, Algeria

Sid El-Antri massacre
Part of Algerian Civil War
Location	Near Tiaret, Algeria
Date	23–24 December 1997
Deaths	48-117 villagers

Algerian Civil War

Beginning of war 1991–1994

1990 Algerian local elections
Guemmar
1991 legislative elections
1992 coup
Assassination of Mohamed Boudiaf
Algiers
Blida
Assassinations of journalists

Escalation 1994–1996

Tazoult
Tenes
Ain Allah
Berrouaghia
Air France Flight 8969
Algiers
Sundus
Serkadji
Ain Defla
Ghardaïa
France

Massacres and reconciliation 1996–1999

Defeat of the GIA 1999–2002

Algerian massacres in 1997

Massacres in which over 50 people were killed:

Thalit massacre	3–4 April
Haouch Khemisti massacre	21 April
Daïat Labguer (M'sila) Massacre	16 June
Si-Zerrouk massacre	27 July
Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre	3 August
Souhane massacre	20–21 August
Beni-Ali massacre	26 August
Rais massacre	29 August
Beni-Messous massacre	5–6 September
Guelb El-Kebir massacre	19 September
Bentalha massacre	22 September
Sid El-Antri massacre	23–24 December
Wilaya of Relizane massacres	30 December

1998 →

The Sid El-Antri massacre took place on the night of 23–24 December 1997 in two small villages near Tiaret, Algeria. The death toll is unclear; Reuters cites "at least 80", or 48 according to the government. Le Jeune Independent reported 117 people were killed and 11 abducted by terrorists, and a timeline gives 53 (including 15 children) killed in Sidi el-Antri (or Sidi el-Antar, Sidi Lamri) and 28 in Shari. On the same day, 11 were killed further away in the Bainem area near Algiers. A few days later, another 26 civilians were killed in the Zouabria massacre, also near Tiaret.