Algerian revolutionary leaders knew captured women would be tortured to death

Evidence

The leaders hesitated to involve the women, being perfectly aware of the ferocity of the colonizer. The leaders of the Revolution had no illusions as to the enemy’s criminal capacities. Nearly all of them had passed through their jails or had had sessions with survivors from the camps or the cells of the French judicial police. No one of them failed to realize that any Algerian woman arrested would be tortured to death. It is relatively easy to commit oneself to this path and to accept among different eventualities that of dying under torture. The matter is a little more difficult when it involves designating someone who manifestly runs the risk of certain death. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 170 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

This enabled the colonial administration to define a precise political doctrine: “If we want to destroy the structure of Algerian society, its capacity for resistance, we must first of all conquer the women; we must go and find them behind the veil where they hide themselves and in the houses where the men keep them out of sight.” It is the situation of woman that was accordingly taken as the theme of action. The dominant administration solemnly undertook to defend this woman, pictured as humiliated, sequestered, cloistered … — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 133 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Revolutionary leaders knew arrested women would be tortured to death — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 170; Colonial doctrine treated conquering women as the key to destroying Algerian resistance — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 133

Related

• Revolutionary leaders knew arrested women would be tortured to death (similarity 0.95)
• Colonial doctrine treated conquering women as the key to destroying Algerian resistance (similarity 0.88)
• Algerian women’s traditional seclusion made them the hardest nucleus of anti-colonial resistance (similarity 0.84)
• The unveiled Algerian woman functioned as an essential operative in the revolutionary network. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society (similarity 0.80)
• National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance (similarity 0.79)
• Making the Revolution depend on women’s action was a wholly revolutionary step (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian fidaïs chose revolutionary life rather than courting death. (similarity 0.78)
• Algerian women’s seclusion made them core vehicles of anti-colonial resistance (similarity 0.78)
• Algerian women’s confinement to the home was a conscious technique of struggle (similarity 0.78)
• The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Revolutionary leaders knew arrested women would be tortured to death #corroborates (1.00) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 170
• Colonial doctrine treated conquering women as the key to destroying Algerian resistance #expands (0.45) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 133