| Country: | Algeria |
| Details of Formation: | The group was formed as a clandestine death squad of the DRS (Algerian security services) under General Toufik. |
| Details of Termination: | There is no information on termination, but there is no evidence that the group was active after 1995 (Wikipedia). |
| Purpose: | The group was created in order to revenge Islamic fundamentalists’ attack, so that the military did not have to use the official forces and could deny the violence (Wikipedia). |
| Organisation: | The group belongs to the DRS security forces and was founded under General Toufik. The de-facto leader of the organization supposedly was General Mohamed Lamar, head of the CC/ALAS (Centre Command of the Antisubversive Fight). The group works in the same way as the ORAF (Organization of the French Algerian Resistance) group did during the Independence War (Wikipedia). |
| Weapons and Training: | -- |
| Size: | -- |
| Reason for Membership: | Members joined the group because they want to eradicate Islam from Algeria (Wikipedia). |
| Treatment of Civilians: | The group killed civilians, especially those they suspected of being sympathetic to the Islamist fundamentalists (Wikipedia). There are also reports of systematic torture and abductions, tolerated by the government. |
| Other Information: | The group is also called Organization of Young Free Algerians, and is known under its French acronym OJAL (Organisation des jeunes Algériens libres). |
| References: |
Wikipedia. “Organization of Young Free Algerians”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Young_Free_Algerians |