Remembering Algeria's Black October

5th October 1988 marks Algeria’s Black October, in what is considered the country’s Arab Spring.

From 5-11 October 1988, 500 people were killed and more than a 1,000 were injured in the worst violence since the country’s independence in 1962.

Algerian youth rioted against social and political stagnation as well as high unemployment and governmental austerity measures.

A year later, Algeria’s single party system collapsed paving the way for the Constitution of 1989.

The instability that followed spiralled into a civil war that led to the death of more than 200,000 Algerians by 1999.