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BLIDA, Algeria (AP) - Fatmazora Mokrane cherishes a faded photograph of her son, a teenager with curly hair and a calm gaze. The last time she saw him was in 1995, when Islamic extremists kidnapped the 16-year-old on his way to work.
She believes he was murdered — like her brother, who was shot dead in his apartment, another victim of the Islamic insurgency that tore Algeria apart after the secular government stopped 1992 parliamentary elections to thwart an expected victory by a hard-line religious party.
Mokrane is suffering another loss now. She feels the killers are escaping justice because of the government's efforts to turn the page on a brutal conflict that saw 150,000-200,000 people killed.
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