Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the reader’s core interest: the ‘savage war’ pattern repeating within Algeria itself after independence. — connects to: Ten Algerian civilians died for every combatant killed; Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war; Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (+4 more)
• QUESTION: The casualty figures deserve checking against later scholarship, which has offered even higher estimates for the 1990s civil war.

Related

• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.94)
• Ten Algerian civilians died for every combatant killed (similarity 0.90)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (similarity 0.90)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.89)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (similarity 0.89)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns (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 0.84)
• The O.A.S. killed more Algerian civilians than the F.L.N. ever did (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates (similarity 0.81)
• 1990s atrocities reprised the throat-slitting techniques of the original war (similarity 0.81)
• The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria descended into a secret civil war parallel to the main front (similarity 0.80)
• Post-1992 civil war violence directly echoed the throat-slitting techniques of the colonial war. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns #expands (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France #expands (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694