Beni-Messous Massacre - Eyewitness Quotes

Eyewitness Quotes

Quoted by Rachid Khiari, Associated Press, Sept. 7:

"We heard victims screaming and cries for help, but no one came," one of those who escaped told The Associated Press.

"They kicked the door in, took the men, forced them outside, slit their throats," one woman -- the sole survivor of her family -- told The Associated Press. "They came back, took out my aunt and slit her throat, after slashing open her stomach," said the woman, who identified herself only by her family's name, Benbrahin. The woman escaped through a window of her home, then hid in a nearby forest until daybreak.

Quoted by Daikha Dridi (babelmed 2003):

Everyone remembers that terrible night: “it happened a bit further down, where the disaster stricken people’s town is today. That night, they were putting projectors up to light up the forest so that they could see the terrorists, when one started to hear people screaming” says Rafiq.