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Algeria continues to face questions over murder of French monks, 30 years on

An undated photo showing six of seven French Trappist monks who were kidnapped on the night of 26 March 1996 from a monastery in Tibhirine, some 100km south-west of Algiers. © AFP

Thirty years after seven French monks were kidnapped and killed in the Atlas mountains at the height of Algeria's civil war, a lawyer for the victims' relatives tells RFI an official investigation has yet to uncover the full truth.

On the night of 26 to 27 March 1996, seven monks were abducted from the monastery of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibhirine, south of Algiers, and later murdered. Only their heads were ever recovered.

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