Mr. Speaker, to our dismay and indignation, we heard yesterday that Algerian Islamic fundamentalists took another young girl as the innocent victim of the intolerance that now rocks that country.
Since five leaders of the Islamic Front were sentenced to death by a symbolic tribunal of women gathered in Algiers to commemorate International Women's Day, other innocent women have been slaughtered.
The list of Algerian girls and women assassinated, tortured and raped by fundamentalists is getting longer as the months go by. The official tally of women assassinated by armed fundamentalists between the months of August 1993 and December 1994 is 112, including 6 students.
As parliamentarians, we insist on denouncing in the strongest terms possible these gratuitous and premeditated murders which violate the most basic rights of Algerians and which deprive them of the hope of being free and safe in their own country.