Colonial administrations routinely respond to insurgency with indiscriminate arrests that radicalize the innocent

Evidence

The National Liberation Front, at the time when the people were undergoing the most massive assaults of colonialism, did not hesitate to prohibit certain forms of action and constantly to remind the fighting units of the international laws of war. In a war of liberation, the colonized people must win, but they must do so cleanly, without “barbarity.” The European nation that practices torture is a blighted nation, unfaithful to its history. The underdeveloped nation that practices torture thereby confirms its nature, plays the role of an underdeveloped people. If it does not wish to be morally condemned by the “Western nations,” an underdeveloped nation is obliged to practice fair play, even while its adversary ventures, with a clear conscience, into the unlimited exploration of new means of terror. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mass arrests replenished rebel ranks even as they destroyed the original leadership; Colonial violence was driven by officials’ fantasies and anticipatory fears.; Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65

Related

• Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.84)
• Unapproved colonizers must perform legitimacy rather than act at home (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Mass arrests replenished rebel ranks even as they destroyed the original leadership #corroborates (0.75)
• Colonial violence was driven by officials’ fantasies and anticipatory fears. #expands (0.60)
• Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror #complicates (0.45) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65