Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people.

Evidence

It was a “war of peace” in that no declaration of hostilities was ever made (unless one should recognise the first FLN proclamation of 1 November 1954 as such), and during most of the eight years the vast majority of Frenchmen lived unaffected by it. Equally, it was undeniably and horribly savage, bringing death to an estimated one million Muslim Algerians and the expulsion from their homes of approximately the same number of European settlers. If the one side practised unspeakable mutilations, the other tortured and, once it took hold, there seemed no halting the pitiless spread of violence. As at a certain moment in the Battle of Verdun in 1916, it seemed as if events had escaped all human control; often, in Algeria, the essential tragedy was heightened by the feeling that—with a little more magnanimity, a little more trust, moderation and compassion—the worst might have been avoided. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 9 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Under worsening economic conditions, Fundamentalism led by the F.I.S. [Islamic Salvation Front], came to acquire a growing ascendancy throughout the country. Alarmed at their power, the F.L.N.-based regime under Liamine Zeroual in 1992 cancelled the second round of the National Elections. From then on escalated a new civil war, which by the time of the next elections three years later, had killed perhaps as many as 50,000 people — over twice as many as all the French fatalities, civilian as well as military, during the eight years of the War of National Liberation. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694; The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 9; Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates

Related

• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.94)
• Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates (similarity 0.90)
• The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers (similarity 0.89)
• Ten Algerian civilians died for every combatant killed (similarity 0.88)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (similarity 0.88)
• The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people (similarity 0.87)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (similarity 0.87)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.86)
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France (similarity 0.83)
• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.82)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.81)
• 1990s atrocities reprised the throat-slitting techniques of the original war (similarity 0.81)
• The O.A.S. killed more Algerian civilians than the F.L.N. ever did (similarity 0.81)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers #contradicts (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 9
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France #contradicts (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694
• Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates #contradicts (0.30)