F.L.N. annihilated the rival M.N.A. militia with French troops watching passively
Evidence
One such group five hundred strong was created, armed and uniformed in eastern Kabylia under a former M.T.L.D. municipal councillor called Bellounis. At first the F.L.N. reacted by slitting a few random throats. In Algiers, Soustelle’s psychological-warfare experts began to toy with the idea of using Bellounis’s dissident force as an “anti-guerrilla” along lines that had proved profitable in Indo-China. Then, with the summer of 1955, the ferocious Amirouche—in whose sector Bellounis had appeared—moved in, encircling Bellounis’s camp at Guenzet and attacking it by surprise. The internecine massacre lasted forty-eight hours, watched gleefully by neighbouring French troops without intervening. Only Bellounis and a handful of his five hundred men escaped alive. Bellounis now directed his footsteps towards the French. Amirouche’s operation did, however, signify the end of the M.N.A. challenge in Kabylia, and the beginning of its elimination as a serious rival to the F.L.N. throughout the country followed in the second half of 1956; an elimination that was to have meaningful echoes when, by the first Evian negotiations of 1961, Gaullist France toyed vainly with hopes of the all but extinct M.N.A. providing an interlocuteur valable alternative to the F.L.N. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 422
Categorization
- XREF: French non-intervention in inter-Algerian massacre echoes the colonial divide-and-rule playbook; France’s later M.N.A. hopes connect to the interlocuteur valable thread from 417. — connects to: Mélouza massacre grew from F.L.N.-M.N.A. rivalry, not solely French action; During 1960 the F.L.N. waged a war of terror against the M.N.A. inside Paris; Post-independence leadership rivalries turned lethal within the F.L.N. (+2 more)
Related
- MĂ©louza massacre grew from F.L.N.-M.N.A. rivalry, not solely French action (similarity 0.92)
- During 1960 the F.L.N. waged a war of terror against the M.N.A. inside Paris (similarity 0.85)
- French repression’s martyrs and the F.L.N.’s mere survival drove its 1955 recruitment (similarity 0.80)
- FLN gained most from French brutal strike-breaking methods. (similarity 0.79)
- The massacre was a strategic net gain for the F.L.N. despite its horror (similarity 0.79)
- The Philippeville massacre was a net gain for the F.L.N. despite its horror (similarity 0.79)
- The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.79)
- The F.L.N. waged an internecine war in Paris killing hundreds annually by 1960. (similarity 0.78)
- The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.78)
- F.L.N. power struggles intensified as independence approached. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Post-independence leadership rivalries turned lethal within the F.L.N.
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