Can the Algerian government stop the attacks?
PHIL PONCE: Why hasn’t the government been able to stop these killings? MARY-JANE DEEB: The government has done a great deal more than we think. For instance, all the major cities have been protected during Ramadan. Algiers, nothing has happened in Algiers, nothing has happened in Constantine, or Annaba, or Oran. All these urban centers where the population is concentrated are protected. What we’re seeing now are isolated villages where it is very difficult to assume the protection of all the individuals there. So there has been an increased insecurity, but that is not possible all over the country. The country is quite large. PHIL PONCE: Because some of the attacks have taken place not very far from Algiers. MARY-JANE DEEB: That’s correct. That’s correct. Is the govnernment itself responsible the bloodshed? PHIL PONCE: How about reports–some of the government’s critics even go so far as to say that the government itself has had a hand in some of these abuses. Is there any credibility
