Algeria on Thursday blasted Switzerland for indicting its former defence minister on charges of committing crimes against humanity in the 1990s during the North African country’s civil war. On Thursday, Algeria’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf said in a conversation with his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis that the situation had “reached the limits of the inadmissible and intolerable”. The 1992-2002 civil war between government forces and Islamists in Algeria left up to 200,000 people dead. It erupted after the army suspended an electoral process when the Islamic Salvation Front won the first round of a parliamentary vote in 1991. It said Attaf hoped the case would not take relations between the two countries “down the path of the undesirable and the irreparable”.
