Algeria’s 1984 amnesties excluded traitors to the revolution.

Evidence

The men thus rehabilitated included not only leaders who had been liquidated during the war, but also fallen angels who had revolted against either Ben Bella or Boumedienne during the post-war years. Among the wartime leaders forgiven were Si Salah, and the two tracked down and murdered abroad: Krim and Khider. Explicitly absent were the harkis who had served France. So, too, was Ramdane Abane; for obvious reasons, so long as any of those implicated in his death remained alive, the legend of the hero “killed in action” had to be allowed to persist. But, in Chadli Bendjedid’s Algeria of 1984, veterans were much less inhibited in discussing what really happened to men like Abane and Si Salah, in a manner that would have been inconceivable under the shadow of Boumedienne ten years previously. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1682 (#expands, via linked claim)

The high walls that surround the houses in Algeria, the delightful courtyards concealed in total privacy behind squalid exteriors in the Casbah, hint at an Algerian characteristic that also does not ease the path of an historian. This natural instinct for secretiveness, developed over the five generations of French suzerainty, was further heightened to the point where few inklings leaked out during the eight years of clandestine warfare of the many internal splits that repeatedly threatened to rive the FLN leadership. It is no less difficult to discover the truth of such divisions today. Compounded with secretiveness there also remains some degree of apprehension. Factionalism of the Revolution continued long after Independence in 1962, and as late as 1967 there was an abortive coup against Boumedienne. Two of the neuf historiques founders of the revolt against France have been mysteriously murdered in exile in Europe; Ben Bella remains in prison, who knows where? Several other former revolutionary leaders live, like Trotsky, nervously in disfavour abroad. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 14 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algeria’s 1984 amnesties rehabilitated wartime victims but excluded harkis and Abane — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1682; Algeria’s ingrained secretiveness and post-independence factionalism still obscure the revolution’s history — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 14

Related

• Algeria’s 1984 amnesties rehabilitated wartime victims but excluded harkis and Abane (similarity 0.92)
• Algeria’s ingrained secretiveness and post-independence factionalism still obscure the revolution’s history (similarity 0.89)
• The Algerian War proved too recent for any definitive historical account (similarity 0.82)
• Boumedienne’s Algeria rejected the personality cult common in postcolonial Arab states (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s revolution deliberately suppressed individual hero cults out of collectivity (similarity 0.79)
• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s post-independence regime was captured by its wartime armed wing. (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.79)
• Boumedienne remained almost entirely unknown despite becoming Algeria’s president (similarity 0.79)
• Wartime Algeria’s traits persisted in Boumedienne’s postwar single-party dictatorship. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Algeria’s 1984 amnesties rehabilitated wartime victims but excluded harkis and Abane #expands (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1682
• Algeria’s ingrained secretiveness and post-independence factionalism still obscure the revolution’s history #expands (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 14