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Hello and thank you for downloading The Witness Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Alex Last.

And today we go back to 1998 when Algeria was mired in a vicious conflict between government forces and radical Islamists.

Around 150,000 people were killed in the violence which was marked by massacres of

entire villages.

In 2013 I spoke to the Spanish journalist Mark Marginades who witnessed the

aftermath of one such massacre on the 11th of January 1998 in the village of Sidi Hamid on the outskirts of the capital, Algiers.

I remember it was very windy and it was very cold, it was very great.

And even though the wind was pretty strong at the time, the

smell was there. The smell was very intense as soon as you opened the door of the car.

The street smell of people who had been burned.

The previous night men believed to be members of an ultra-radical Islamic group, the GIA,

entered the village armed with guns, knives and axes.

For over an hour they slaughtered men, women and children.

There was blood everywhere and they were still retrieving copters.

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