Algerian revolutionary leaders weighed three distinct political and moral concerns against retaliation.

Evidence

To explain these hesitations there was, to be sure, the memory of civilians killed or frightfully wounded. There was the political consideration not to do certain things that could compromise the cause of freedom. There was also the fear that the Europeans working with the Front might be hit in these attempts. There was thus a threefold concern: not to pile up possibly innocent victims, not to give a false picture of the Revolution, and finally the anxiety to have the French democrats on their side, as well as the democrats of all the countries of the world and the Europeans of Algeria who were attracted by the Algerian national ideal. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 190

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s interest in how Europeans of Algeria were treated by the revolution and the calculus around them.

Related

• Even extreme colonial repression does not justify every retaliatory act. (similarity 0.82)
• French republicans denied Algerians the very liberty they taught them (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians read the retreat of colonialism from settler fear and anger (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s Europeans grew conscious of Algerian nationality during the Revolution (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance. (similarity 0.79)
• Any social revolution in Algeria required breaking colonial ties first (similarity 0.79)