Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war

Evidence

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: The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery; 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 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 (+4 more)

Related

• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns (similarity 0.93)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (similarity 0.91)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.89)
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France (similarity 0.88)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (similarity 0.88)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.86)
• Algeria’s post-independence regime was captured by its wartime armed wing. (similarity 0.86)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.84)
• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.83)
• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.83)
• Wartime Algeria’s traits persisted in Boumedienne’s postwar single-party dictatorship. (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious. (similarity 0.82)
• The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria descended into a secret civil war parallel to the main front (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery #corroborates (0.90)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. #corroborates (0.70)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695
• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. #expands (0.60)
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France #complicates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694