Algeria’s post-independence regime was captured by its wartime armed wing.

Evidence

If the pieds noirs had shown they could sway Paris following Mollet’s disastrous visit in February 1956, here now was a new factor; the army as ultimate arbiter. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 685 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime.; Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694; Military victory elevated the army to ultimate political arbiter in Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 685 (+2 more)

Related

• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (similarity 0.90)
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France (similarity 0.89)
• 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)
• Wartime Algeria’s traits persisted in Boumedienne’s postwar single-party dictatorship. (similarity 0.85)
• Military victory elevated the army to ultimate political arbiter in Algeria (similarity 0.85)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (similarity 0.84)
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth (similarity 0.84)
• Military commanders seized power in both Algeria and France at the same moment (similarity 0.82)
• Military commanders privately authorized bombing and collective responsibility in Algeria. (similarity 0.81)
• Army officers saw the Algerian war as both career security and a noble cause. (similarity 0.81)
• 1990s atrocities reprised the throat-slitting techniques of the original war (similarity 0.80)
• French repression pushed postwar Algerian nationalism toward armed extremism (similarity 0.80)
• The army viewed any negotiated ceasefire as toppling its war effort in Algeria (similarity 0.80)
• Repeated regime changes left the French army uniquely divided over where its loyalties lay (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Military victory elevated the army to ultimate political arbiter in Algeria #expands (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 685
• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. #expands (0.70)
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694
• Armed struggle restored meaning to Algerian life and death #corroborates (0.40)