Massinissa Guermah

Massinissa Guermah (1983, Beni Douala, Tizi Ouzou Province - 20 April 2001) was a 19-year-old Kabyle (Berber) high school student arrested by Algerian gendarmes on 18 April 2001. In circumstances still not clear, he received gunshot wounds inside the gendarmerie, which he later died of on 20 April in the Mustapha Hospital.

His killing caused months-long riots in Kabylie; this series of events is referred to as the Black Spring. The violence was fuelled by an Algerian national campaign to impose Arabic language on its people in place of indigenous languages, including Kabyle.

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