Colonialism is held causally responsible for every single Algerian death

Evidence

It must not be believed, however, that the traditional ceremonies are repeated in the case of natural deaths, resulting from illnesses or accidents. Even then, it seems virtually impossible to revive the habitual techniques of despair. The war has dislocated Algerian society to such a point that any death is conceived of as a direct or indirect consequence of colonialist repression. Today there is not a dead person in Algeria who is not the victim of French colonialism. It is impossible for an Algerian civilian to remain untouched by the war of colonial reconquest. More than this, there is not a death of an Algerian outside of Algeria which is not attributed to French colonialism. The Algerian people have thus decided that, until independence, French colonialism will be innocent of none of the wounds inflicted upon its body and its consciousness. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ten Algerian civilians died for every combatant killed; War dislocates society so all deaths are attributed to colonialism — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389; Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial

Related

• War dislocates society so all deaths are attributed to colonialism (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial (similarity 0.91)
• Ten Algerian civilians died for every combatant killed (similarity 0.82)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s revolution was won by mass civilian struggle, not by guerrilla arms. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial war generated a new Algerian humanity arising from the blood shed (similarity 0.80)
• Armed struggle restored meaning to Algerian life and death (similarity 0.80)
• Even extreme colonial repression does not justify every retaliatory act. (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian nationhood became an embodied reality inside each new Algerian (similarity 0.79)
• Each Algerian generation grows harder rather than wearier against colonialism (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial war fragmented the Algerian family and individualized its members (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial violence against families forged Algerian national unity through shared suffering (similarity 0.79)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.79)
• Armed struggle restores meaning to Algerian lives that colonial domination emptied (similarity 0.79)
• Modern Algeria is inseparably the child of wartime Algeria (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• War dislocates society so all deaths are attributed to colonialism #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389
• Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial #exemplifies (0.60)