De facto residential segregation by community emerged in Algiers cities during the terror.

Evidence

On 24 February, following the killing by the F.L.N. of a Bab-el-Oued taxi-driver, a pied noir mob trapped a score of Muslim workers in a cul-de-sac and stabbed and beat them to death. Increasingly a kind of apartheid, which had never previously existed, was growing up in the cities as Muslim workers declined to enter the European quarters — and vice versa. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1578 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Also targeted, in a determined effort by the F.I.S. to ruin the country’s economy by scaring off badly needed external investment, were foreign journalists and technicians. Distinguished political leaders, like Ait Ahmed, were driven — once more — into exile, for fear of their lives. The Government met terror with counter-terror. There leaked out accounts of torture, executions without trial, and “disappearances” that recalled the worst moments of the French Occupation. As in the ’60s, during the reign of the O.A.S., terrorist bombings now struck at Metropolitan France again. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: City-level apartheid emerged in Algeria only at war’s end — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1578; Colonial violence against families forged Algerian national unity through shared suffering; Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695 (+1 more)

Broader Connections