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Les Eucalyptus
Les Eucalyptus is a suburb of the city of Algiers in northern Algeria.
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National Institute of Post and Information and Communication Technologies
The National Institute of Post and Information and Communication Technologies (acronym: INPTIC) or Arabic: المعهد الوطني للبريد وتكنولوجيات الإعلام والاتصال is an Algerian university institution offering training in the fields of telecommunications engineering, computer networks, information technologies, and management. It also offers parallel training for Cisco and Oracle certifications and the European Computer Competence License. The institute is located in the town of Les Eucalyptus, east of Algiers. Administratively, it falls under the Ministry of Post and Information and Communication Technologies and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The institute is a member of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie.
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Rais massacre
The Rais massacre was one of Algeria's bloodiest massacres of the 1990s. It took place on 28 August 1997 at the village of Rais, near Sidi Moussa and south of Algiers. The initial official death toll was 98 people killed and 120 wounded; CNN said that hospital workers and witnesses gave a toll of at least 200, and up to 400. The figure given by the Algerian government to the UN Commission on Human Rights was 238. The BBC later quoted the figure of 800 killed.
In 1997, Algeria was at the peak of a brutal civil conflict that had begun after the military's cancellation of 1992 elections set to be won by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). The poor farming village of Rais had mostly voted for FIS and had a history of supporting Islamist guerrillas in the region, but (according to a villager quoted by PBS) had recently stopped providing them with food and money.