Algerian Civil WarAlgeria · 1991-2002“Lower your voice for Algeria's black decade, where the ballot box was closed and the night opened.”In 1991, the Islamic Salvation Front seemed ready to win Algeria's parliamentary elections. The army stopped the vote, banned the party, and told the country that danger had been prevented.The lesson the elders kept: Cancelling a vote may stop one outcome, but it can also destroy the road by which anger returns peacefully. Algeria teaches that enforced forgetting is not peace.