Exhaustion from seven years of violence ended Algeria’s civil war

Evidence

In 1962, a popular slogan heard among exhausted Algerians was “Seba’a snin, barakat!” (“Seven years, that’s enough!”) Yet, five decades after independence, a savage war still continued in Algeria. It was a country exhausted by seven years of senseless violence, of not knowing who were the “good guys” and who the “bad.” As much as any other factor, it was this exhaustion that helped bring the civil war to an end. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 44

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• The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.80)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.78)