Algerian combatants diverted resources to save a wounded French prisoner

Evidence

Whereas in the region of Mascara, exactly six months ago, more than thirty combatants—encircled and having exhausted their ammunition, after having fought with rocks—were taken prisoner and executed before the village, an Algerian doctor in another section detached a military mission from the frontier in order to bring back in haste medicine urgently needed to treat the ailment of a French prisoner. In the course of the journey two Algerian fighters were killed. On other occasions soldiers have been assigned to engage in a diversion maneuver to enable a group of prisoners to reach the regional command post unharmed. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 67 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Very quickly I came to realize that I belonged in the camp of those who fight for an Algerian nation. The countless tortures that I had occasion to witness in the exercise of my duties were to strengthen my hatred of colonialism: Algerians torn apart by two military trucks driven in opposite directions, classic tortures by water, electricity, hanging by the thumbs or by the testicles. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 579 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algerian combatants risked lives to obtain medicine for captured French prisoners — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 67; A 4,000-member French network aided the F.L.N. while its leader evaded the D.S.T.; Witnessing colonial torture firsthand converted a French doctor to the Algerian cause. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 579

Related

• Algerian combatants risked lives to obtain medicine for captured French prisoners (similarity 0.91)
• Algerians combined modern and traditional medicine for political and psychological reasons (similarity 0.85)
• Witnessing colonial torture firsthand converted a French doctor to the Algerian cause. (similarity 0.85)
• Witnessing torture pushed a European medical family to collaborate with the F.L.N. (similarity 0.82)
• European doctors treated wounded A.L.N. fighters in their own clinics (similarity 0.80)
• European doctors smuggled antibiotics and ether to the Algerian resistance daily (similarity 0.79)
• European doctors who befriended Algerians were warned by superiors and settler civilians. (similarity 0.79)
• French authorities compelled doctors to report wounded Algerians under legal penalty. (similarity 0.78)
• European doctors funneled massive quantities of medicine to the A.L.N. resistance (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Algerian combatants risked lives to obtain medicine for captured French prisoners #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 67
• Witnessing colonial torture firsthand converted a French doctor to the Algerian cause. #contradicts (0.35) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 579
• A 4,000-member French network aided the F.L.N. while its leader evaded the D.S.T. #expands (0.30)