F.L.N. atrocities escalated to blood-draining of European victims in response to O.A.S. outrages

Evidence

Spurred on by the atrocities of the O.A.S., individual F.L.N. killings reached a new level of horror; a Jewish Algerian, sympathising with the F.L.N., told the author how “they killed a shop inspector in his car, a man who had never done anything to anyone. They sliced open his skull, took out his brains and carefully placed them on the ground — like a milestone on the roadside.” The twenty-year-old son of her friend was kidnapped and found the next day in their rubbish bin: “bled white, because the F.L.N. needed the blood for their own wounded”. Gruesomely improbable as this story sounded, it received some supporting evidence in the last month of the war when forty-one European bodies were discovered in an Oran abattoir, drained of blood. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1512

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether these grisly reports were battlefield rumor or verified practice; Horne flags the story as ‘gruesomely improbable’ but cites the abattoir evidence.
• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s goal of tracking how resistance violence radicalized in response to settler violence. — connects to: F.L.N. atrocity narratives escalated in grisliness and found partial forensic corroboration.; O.A.S. terrorism accelerated the very European exodus it aimed to prevent — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1614; OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend (+1 more)

Related

• F.L.N. atrocity narratives escalated in grisliness and found partial forensic corroboration. (similarity 0.94)
• Rural Algerians had labeled every local European before the F.L.N. approached any of them. (similarity 0.82)
• O.A.S. terrorism accelerated the very European exodus it aimed to prevent (similarity 0.79)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.79)
• The Oran massacre resulted from a European provocation amid otherwise smooth transition (similarity 0.79)
• The F.L.N. terrorized collaborators and issued edicts to cripple settler economic interests. (similarity 0.78)
• The O.A.S. killed more Algerian civilians than the F.L.N. ever did (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• O.A.S. terrorism accelerated the very European exodus it aimed to prevent #expands (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1614
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend #complicates (0.35)
• OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend #complicates (0.30)