Algeria’s 1984 amnesties rehabilitated wartime victims but excluded harkis and Abane

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

Categorization

• QUESTION: The Abane murder remained untouchable because his killers were still alive — worth exploring who exactly was still implicated and why the legend persisted so long.
• XREF: connects to: Algeria’s 1984 amnesties excluded traitors to the revolution.; The Evian peace abandoned up to 150,000 Algerian collaborators to massacre — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1634

Related

• Algeria’s 1984 amnesties excluded traitors to the revolution. (similarity 0.92)
• The Evian peace abandoned up to 150,000 Algerian collaborators to massacre (similarity 0.78)