F.L.N. targeted killings aimed to sever European-Muslim contact and spread mutual suspicion

Evidence

As far as the deliberately contrived, selective killing of European settlers went, the clear-cut aim was to drive them in from the bled, thus further reducing existing contacts between the two communities. The anonymity of their murderers—as with the Mau-Mau in Kenya—served the same purpose by making the whole of the local Muslim population suspect in the eyes of the fearful Europeans. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 420

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Mau-Mau strategy in Kenya; connects to the broader colonial ‘savage war’ pattern across the chapter’s theme. — connects to: Rural Algerians had labeled every local European before the F.L.N. approached any of them.; F.L.N. killed six Muslims for every European civilian in the war’s first years — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 421; F.L.N. terror silenced Muslim informants and paralyzed collaboration with the French — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 323 (+5 more)

Related

• Rural Algerians had labeled every local European before the F.L.N. approached any of them. (similarity 0.86)
• F.L.N. terror silenced Muslim informants and paralyzed collaboration with the French (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. terrorized collaborators and issued edicts to cripple settler economic interests. (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. killed six Muslims for every European civilian in the war’s first years (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. terrorized Muslim collaborators and used mutilation as an economic and symbolic weapon (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terror killed six times more Muslims than Europeans (similarity 0.82)
• Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image. (similarity 0.81)
• F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery (similarity 0.80)
• Indiscriminate F.L.N. bombing alienated the Muslim working class (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• F.L.N. terror silenced Muslim informants and paralyzed collaboration with the French #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 323
• French interrogators used broken Muslim prisoners as masked informers to trap new suspects #exemplifies (0.45) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 590