Aurès tribal customs of silence and vendetta were ready-made for F.L.N. exploitation.
Evidence
The various tribes habitually lived in a state of bloody, Corsican-style vendetta with each other, but would unite when threatened by an outside force. They would complain to the administration at its failure to protect them from banditry; yet, at the same time, they would as a matter of principle not denounce a bandit, or refuse him food and lodging. It was a system ready-made for exploitation by the F.L.N. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 264
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the mechanics of insurgent sanctuary in other colonial wars — compares to how mountain tribes sheltered bandits from imperial forces in places like the Hindu Kush. — connects to: Rural Algerians had labeled every local European before the F.L.N. approached any of them.
- SEED: Angle: how pro-social honor codes among stateless mountain peoples become inadvertent logistics networks for modern insurgencies.