Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns
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
Categorization
- XREF: Structural repetition of colonial-era violence directly bears on the reader’s ‘permutations of the Savage War’ theme. — connects to: The GPRA regarded 1962 as the war’s most dangerous phase due to the OAS.; De facto residential segregation by community emerged in Algiers cities during the terror.; Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (+8 more)
Related
- Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.93)
- Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (similarity 0.88)
- Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (similarity 0.86)
- Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.86)
- Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France (similarity 0.86)
- Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.85)
- De facto residential segregation by community emerged in Algiers cities during the terror. (similarity 0.85)
- The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.83)
- Algeria descended into a secret civil war parallel to the main front (similarity 0.82)
- The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.81)
- Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.80)
- Algeria’s post-independence regime was captured by its wartime armed wing. (similarity 0.79)
- F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.79)
- The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria. (similarity 0.79)
- Brutal French reprisals backfired by deepening Algerian hatred of France (similarity 0.78)