1990s atrocities reprised the throat-slitting techniques of the original war

Evidence

The techniques of murder equally had echoes from the grisly égorgements, the throat-slittings, from days of the Savage War, the “Kablyie Smile” as French servicemen dubbed it with unpleasant humour, frequently accompanied by castration. Beheading victims became common, their heads stuck on road signs as a kind of gruesome sport. Algerians themselves spoke of the “blind war,” but in its prolonged, random senselessness it came almost more to resemble Europe’s Thirty Years’ War of the seventeenth century. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 42 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

One of the first, eminent victims of terrorism that June was the President himself, Mohamed Boudiaf. Almost sole survivor of the greatly respected “neuf historiques”, he had been brought back at seventy-three to head a government of reconciliation. As an echo of the 1950s, two weeks alone of January 1994 saw 116 Algerian policemen assassinated, in a deliberate attempt to sow the kind of fear that had gripped the populace during the struggle against the French. Magistrates, evoluées women who refused to wear the veil (and to whom the Revolution had brought such high hopes of emancipation), novelists, journalists and intellectuals all appeared high on the Fundamentalist hit-list. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-1992 civil war violence directly echoed the throat-slitting techniques of the colonial war. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 42; Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694; Generational trauma makes 1997 buffalo slaughter replay 1855 massacre — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 778

Related

• Post-1992 civil war violence directly echoed the throat-slitting techniques of the colonial war. (similarity 0.91)
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France (similarity 0.90)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (similarity 0.87)
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth (similarity 0.86)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (similarity 0.85)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s post-independence regime was captured by its wartime armed wing. (similarity 0.80)
• The national conflict canalized Algerian anger that had previously surfaced as common crime (similarity 0.78)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Post-1992 civil war violence directly echoed the throat-slitting techniques of the colonial war. #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 42
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694