Death Toll
President Bouteflika said in 1999 that 100,000 people had died by that time and in a speech on February 25, 2005, spoke of a round figure of 150,000 people killed in the war. These figures, not broken down into insurgents, state forces and civilians, are commonly cited as the war's death toll. However this estimate may be too high. A 2008 study found about 26,000 people killed, through combat operations, massacres, bombings and assassinations, alongside 18,000 people, 'disappeared' and presumed killed in secret. This would give a total death toll of around 44,000 people.
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