Masinissa Guermah
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Massinissa Guermah of northern Algeria was a young Kabyle (Berber) killed by gendarmes in 2001. The violence was sparked by an Algerian national campaign to impose Arabic language on its people in place of indigenous languages including Kabyle.
His killing caused riots in Kabylie, these events were called the Black spring .
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