F.L.N. atrocity narratives escalated in grisliness and found partial forensic corroboration.
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 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: F.L.N. atrocities escalated to blood-draining of European victims in response to O.A.S. outrages — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1512
Related
- F.L.N. atrocities escalated to blood-draining of European victims in response to O.A.S. outrages (similarity 0.94)
- Rural Algerians had labeled every local European before the F.L.N. approached any of them. (similarity 0.80)
- The O.A.S. killed more Algerian civilians than the F.L.N. ever did (similarity 0.79)
- The F.L.N. terrorized collaborators and issued edicts to cripple settler economic interests. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- F.L.N. atrocities escalated to blood-draining of European victims in response to O.A.S. outrages
#expands(0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1512