Tazoult prison escape

{{Infobox event

| title = Tazoult prison escape

| partof = Algerian Civil War

| date = 10 March 1994

| Location = Tazoult, Algeria

| perpetrator = Armed Islamic Group of Algeria

| outcome = 1,000 to 1,200 prisoners escaped

| reported deaths = 5

| arrests = 39

}}

{{Campaignbox Algerian Civil War}}

On 10 March 1994, 1,000 to 1,200{{Cite web |title=Affaire des 1 200 prisonniers évadés de Tazoult – Algeria-Watch |url=https://algeria-watch.org/?p=23429 |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=algeria-watch.org}} inmates (mainly Islamist militants) escaped from a prison in Tazoult, Algeria, who were fighting to overthrow the Algerian government since early 1992.{{Cite web |title=Algeria confirms prison riot - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/11/15/Algeria-confirms-prison-riot/8041784875600/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=UPI |language=en}} They fled when an Islamist commando unit supported by the prison staff raided the prison and released the inmates.{{Cite web |last=Refugees |first=United Nations High Commissioner for |title=Refworld {{!}} Algeria: Six Months Later, Cover-Up Continues in Prison Clash that Left 100 Inmates Dead |url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6a86618.html |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=Refworld |language=en}} The escapees included 280 prisoners who were on death row. Authorities killed 5 men and arrested 39 during the prison escape.{{Cite web |title=Muslims, Croats to merge armies |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1994/03/13/muslims-croats-to-merge-armies/ |access-date=2023-03-05 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}} The Armed Islamic Group of Algeria claimed responsibility for this from Pakistan.{{Cite book |last1=Mickolus |first1=Edward F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UIBzCC0c2McC&pg=PA579 |title=Terrorism, 1992-1995: A Chronology of Events and a Selectively Annotated Bibliography |last2=Simmons |first2=Susan L. |date=1997 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-30468-2 |language=en}}