Collective responsibility meant interning all males of a village in camps.

Evidence

The previous day Cherrière had spelled out what was meant by “collective responsibility” by providing examples: “Destruction of ninety-nine telegraph poles near Oued-Zenati. It is known that all the males of a douar were involved. The douar must pay for the destroyed poles, replace them. Then remove all the males.” To “remove all the males” meant, in effect, to herd them together into newly created internment camps, equivalents of Long Kesh in Northern Ireland and forerunners of the “regroupment centres” that were to cause so much discontent in years to come. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 358

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concretely defines the euphemism ‘collective responsibility’ and its ultimate meaning: internment camps.
• XREF: Author explicitly links these camps to Long Kesh and the later ‘regroupment centres’ — a connective thread across colonial counterinsurgencies. — connects to: Collective responsibility shifted from punishing villages to destroying them

Broader Connections

• Collective responsibility shifted from punishing villages to destroying them #expands (0.62)