F.L.N. killed six Muslims for every European civilian in the war’s first years

Evidence

Even after Philippeville, however, it was still their fellow Muslims who bore the brunt of F.L.N. terror. Over the first two and a half years of the war 6,352 against 1,035 Europeans were estimated, as a minimum figure, to have been killed in F.L.N. attacks against civilians. During the Yugoslav partisan war of 1941 to 1945, much of Tito’s efforts was expended in combat against Mihailović’s Serb četniks, and such a simultaneous internal “civil war” is a not infrequent concomitant of revolutionary struggle against an external enemy. To the F.L.N. the Number One enemy at home was constituted by the “traitor” M.N.A. supporters of Lahouel, and the absent Messali—once again under house-arrest in France. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 421

Categorization

• XREF: Internal civil war as correlate of anti-colonial struggle, akin to Tito’s war against četniks; connects to the reader’s theme of the ‘savage war’ being partly intra-communal. — connects to: Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image.; F.L.N. terror killed six times more Muslims than Europeans; F.L.N. targeted killings aimed to sever European-Muslim contact and spread mutual suspicion — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 420

Related

• F.L.N. terror killed six times more Muslims than Europeans (similarity 0.96)
• Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image. (similarity 0.90)
• F.L.N. targeted killings aimed to sever European-Muslim contact and spread mutual suspicion (similarity 0.83)
• Indiscriminate F.L.N. bombing alienated the Muslim working class (similarity 0.82)
• The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.82)
• The Philippeville massacre was a net gain for the F.L.N. despite its horror (similarity 0.81)
• F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery (similarity 0.80)
• Rural Algerians had labeled every local European before the F.L.N. approached any of them. (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. terrorized collaborators and issued edicts to cripple settler economic interests. (similarity 0.79)
• Philippeville’s slaughter convinced the F.L.N. that terror paid strategically (similarity 0.79)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.79)
• The F.L.N. terrorized Muslim collaborators and used mutilation as an economic and symbolic weapon (similarity 0.79)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.79)
• The Philippeville massacre proved a strategic net gain for the F.L.N. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• F.L.N. targeted killings aimed to sever European-Muslim contact and spread mutual suspicion #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 420