(14 Jun 2001)
1. Wide marchers carrying banner: "You can't kill us we are already dead"
2. Protesters with blackened faces chanting
3. Protesters chanting at side of road
4. Protesters on top of truck
5. Various march
6. SOUNDBITE: (French) Voxpop, protester
"We have come here to express our pain and the fact we've had enough. We want to express our solidarity with our brothers and friends in Kabyle and the whole population which is living under the dictatorship of the old power."
7. SOUNDBITE: (French) Voxpop, protester
"In order to demand that our Berber language becomes an official language. We are a people and we exist. We want to exist on paper too. We've had enough of the ostracism from this government."
8. Pan of march
9. Protesters chanting at riot police
10. Various protesters chanting
11. Protesters throwing stones at riot police
12. Police using water canon
13. Close-up protesters chanting
16. Protesters throwing stones
14. Wide police firing tear gas
STORYLINE:
Two people died as police clashed with hundreds of thousands of protesters trying to reach the presidential compound in Algiers on Thursday during a "march for democracy" sparked by nearly two months of bloody unrest.
Both the dead were journalists who had been hit by a bus fleeing a burning depot.
Hospital officials said that between 400 and 500 people were injured in the demonstration, called by Berber groups but supported by numerous opposition parties.
Riot police had earlier fired tear gas at the protesters trying to bypass barricades and march on the presidential offices in the heart of the city.
Sporadic violence by protesters wielding clubs punctuated Thursday's march, with one group attacking the luxury Sofitel Hotel, breaking ground-floor windows with stones or iron bars.
Organisers of the demonstration defied government orders to keep the march between two main squares.
Instead, protesters set off from the outskirts of the capital to march to the presidential offices, as planned.
Ahead of the demonstration, authorities closed down the 34th Algiers Fair, the march's starting point.
The fair draws hundreds of businesses from abroad.
The protest was organised by representatives of Algeria's minority Berber population, but was also supported by numerous opposition political parties.
Marchers carried signs denouncing the "hogra," a word used to refer to injustice and abuse of power, and waved olive branches and flags of Algeria and of Kabyle.
Thursday's march was the latest in a series of protests across the Kabyle region and in Algiers, organised to condemn the authorities' handling of riots that ripped through the Berber region in April and May.
The violence was the latest outbreak in the North African nation, which has been battling an Islamic insurgency for nine years.
More than 100-thousand people have been killed since the start of the insurgency in 1992.
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