Algerians vote massively to bury brutal war

By Hamid Ould Ahmed
Reuters
Friday, September 30, 2005; 11:43 AM

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerians voted overwhelmingly to turn the page on a decade of civil war that has cost more than 150,000 lives by offering a partial amnesty to hundreds of die-hard Islamic militants, results showed on Friday.

The conflict, which pitted neighbor against neighbor, isolated the oil-producing Arab state from the rest of the world amid atrocities by rebels and allegations of crimes by security forces.