Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics.

Evidence

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)

Also targeted, in a determined effort by the F.I.S. to ruin the country’s economy by scaring off badly needed external investment, were foreign journalists and technicians. Distinguished political leaders, like Ait Ahmed, were driven — once more — into exile, for fear of their lives. The Government met terror with counter-terror. There leaked out accounts of torture, executions without trial, and “disappearances” that recalled the worst moments of the French Occupation. As in the ’60s, during the reign of the O.A.S., terrorist bombings now struck at Metropolitan France again. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war; Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694; Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (+2 more)

Related

• Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (similarity 0.97)
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France (similarity 0.96)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.91)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.89)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns (similarity 0.88)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.87)
• 1990s atrocities reprised the throat-slitting techniques of the original war (similarity 0.87)
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth (similarity 0.87)
• Algeria’s post-independence regime was captured by its wartime armed wing. (similarity 0.87)
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.85)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.81)
• Ten Algerian civilians died for every combatant killed (similarity 0.80)
• Military commanders privately authorized bombing and collective responsibility in Algeria. (similarity 0.80)
• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.79)
• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern #corroborates (0.80)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns #corroborates (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694