Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France

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

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘echo of the 1950s’ framing directly serves the reader’s goal of tracing the Savage War of Peace concept’s permutations. — connects to: Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war; Algeria’s post-independence regime was captured by its wartime armed wing.; Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (+8 more)

Related

• Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (similarity 0.96)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (similarity 0.93)
• 1990s atrocities reprised the throat-slitting techniques of the original war (similarity 0.90)
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth (similarity 0.90)
• Algeria’s post-independence regime was captured by its wartime armed wing. (similarity 0.89)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.88)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns (similarity 0.86)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.86)
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.83)
• Post-1992 civil war violence directly echoed the throat-slitting techniques of the colonial war. (similarity 0.81)
• 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)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.79)
• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695