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![[Islamic Salvation Front]](../images/d/dz}fis.gif)
Flag of the FIS - Image by Jorge Candeias, 24 December 2001
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In 1989, the process of creating multiparty democracy began and
opposition political forces were legalized. In the free municipal
elections of 1990, the FLN, FIS, Communist Party, Social Democratic
Party, and Union for Culture and
Democracy competed, although Ben Bella's Movement for Democracy
in Algeria and Ait-Ahmed's Front of Socialist Forces abstained.
The FIS was declared illegal in January 1992 and its partisans
fled en masse to the mountains, with the most radical element
beginning its activities as the GIA (Groupes armés
islamiques, Armed Islamic Groups) and the more moderate acting
under the name MAI (Mouvement armé islamique, Armed
Islamic Movement).
Jaume Ollé, 24 December 2001, translated from Spanish by Joe McMillan
The upper and lower inscriptions on the flag are unreadable, but the main inscription is the movement name in Arabic.
Dov Gutterman, 12 May 1999
![[Islamist flag, 1991]](../images/d/dz_1991.gif)
![[Islamist flag, 1991]](../images/d/dz_1991a.gif)
Two flags used by Islamists in 1991 - Images by Jaume Ollé, 24 December 2001
In 1991 a new electoral system that purportedly favored the FLN
brought about street protests by the Islamists, using the national
flag with the inscription Allah is greater (communication from
J.L. Cepero, 23 March 1999, accompanying a photo in which an edging
in the letters can be seen, probably from having been sewn onto a
national flag.)
A flag in the national colors of green and white was also used,
with the inscription in red of the same meaning as that above (same
communication)
Jaume Ollé, 24 December 2001, translated from Spanish by Joe McMillan
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