List of massacres in Algeria

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Algeria. This is an incomplete list; the total number of massacres reported is far more numerous.

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Ain-Defla massacre	1994 mid-March	Ain-Defla	80	Several massacres occurred at Ain-Defla, including in 1994, 1997 and 2001.
Baloul massacre		Village of Baloul, Saïda	40-60+
Batna-Msila Road massacre		Batna	63	Bus stopped at a fake roadblock and 29 people killed by hatchets and knives.
Benachour massacre	December 5, 1996	Benachour, Blida	19
Benachour massacre	January 5, 1997	Benachour, Blida	16
Beni Ali massacre		Beni Ali	100
Béni Ounif massacre		Béni Ounif	29
Beni-Messous massacre		Beni-Messous	87+
Bentalha massacre		15 km south of Algiers	200-400	"he massacre of Bentalha in which 400 people had their throats cut one September night in 1997".
Berrouaghia prison massacre			30-200
Blida massacre		Blida	82	Massacres in Blida also occurred in 1997 and 2001.
Boufarik massacre		Boufarik	22	The victims were hacked to death.
Chouardia massacre		Wilaya of Médéa	40
Dairat Labguer massacre		Dairat Labguer	50	Five nights earlier, another 17 had been killed 5 km away.
El Ouffia tribe massacre	1832	Algeria	500+	All the men, women and children of the El Oufia tribe were killed in one night.
Guelb El-Kebir massacre		Beni Slimane	52
Haouch Khemisti massacre		Haouch Mokhfi Khemisti	93	The 93 villagers were decapitated in 3 hours on the night of April 22–23.
Hidroelektra workers massacre	December 14, 1993	near Blida	12
In Amenas hostage crisis	January 16-19, 2013	In Amenas	39
Isly massacre	March 26, 1962	Algiers	50-80	Massacre of Pied-Noirs rioting against Algeria's independence by panicking French Algerian Muslims troops
Omaria massacre		Omaria	42
Oran massacre of 1962		Oran	95-453	Mass killing of French settlers living in Algeria by members of the Algerian National Liberation Army.
Oued Bouaicha massacre		Djelfa	52	The victims were killed by men carrying axes and knives, at Oued Bouaïcha in the municipality of Bouiret Lahdab; near Had Sahary. On the same day, a massacre occurred at Youb.
Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre		Arib	40-76
Oueid Khenig-Roum bombing	January 14, 2021	Oueid Khenig-Roum, Telidjane District, Tebessa Province	5
Ouled Rhia tribe massacre	1845	Dahra	500-700	The entire Ouled Rhia tribe was killed by suffocation in a cave.
Rais massacre		Rais	800	"Some were shot, some had their throats cut, the heads of babies were severed. A group of extremists who claimed to be motivated by Islam carried out the killings."
Laghouat massacre		Ville de Laghouat	2300 - 3000
Le Soir d'Algérie bombing	February 11, 1996	Algiers	29	The victims included three journalists.
Sétif and Guelma massacre		Sétif	6000-45000
Sid El-Antri massacre		Tiaret	48-117
Sidi Daoud massacre		Sig	43	The Sidi Daoud massacre took place outside the village of Sidi Daoud near Sig in western Algeria on the night of 12 October 1997. 43 people were killed at a fake roadblock.
Sidi-Hamed massacre		Sidi-Hamed	103	70 injured
Si Zerrouk massacre		Larbaa	47-58
Souhane massacre		Souhane	64
Tadjena massacre		mountain villages of Bouhamed and Ayachiche	81	In 2003, Tadjena was subjected to two additional massacres.
Tadjena massacre		Tadjena	7	site of other massacres in 1998 and 2003
Tadjena massacre		Tadjena	14	site of other massacres in 1998 and 2003
Tenes massacre		Ténès	16
Thalit massacre		Thalit	52	52 Of the 53 inhabitants were killed by slitting their throats. The villagers' homes were burned down afterwards.
Tiarit massacre		Tiarit	15 women and children.
Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December 1997		4 villages	78-272
Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998		Oued Rhiou	172+
Youb massacre		Youb	11	On the same day as the Oued Bouaicha massacre