F.L.N. terror silenced Muslim informants and paralyzed collaboration with the French
Evidence
Interrogations conducted in front of the local caid produced little: “you couldn’t see any expression in the Arabs’ eyes, except a kind of timid curiosity, but now hatred flashed there, like fire.…” Fear was everywhere. The bodies of loyal Muslims would be discovered, often appallingly mutilated or having been subjected to slow deaths that the adjacent army posts would be powerless to prevent. “Tongues were paralysed with terror.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 323
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: France armed defector Bellounis into a private Muslim ‘third force’ army; F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself; The F.L.N. terrorized Muslim collaborators and used mutilation as an economic and symbolic weapon (+6 more)
Related
- The F.L.N. terrorized Muslim collaborators and used mutilation as an economic and symbolic weapon (similarity 0.90)
- The F.L.N. terrorized collaborators and issued edicts to cripple settler economic interests. (similarity 0.88)
- F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.85)
- Indiscriminate F.L.N. bombing alienated the Muslim working class (similarity 0.84)
- F.L.N. targeted killings aimed to sever European-Muslim contact and spread mutual suspicion (similarity 0.84)
- F.L.N. terrorism and G.P.R.A. assertiveness eroded the French ‘third force’ Muslim strategy (similarity 0.84)
- F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.82)
- The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.82)
- F.L.N. shifted its terrorist focus to metropolitan France (similarity 0.82)
- F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.82)
- F.L.N. terror killed six times more Muslims than Europeans (similarity 0.82)
- The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.81)
- France armed defector Bellounis into a private Muslim ‘third force’ army (similarity 0.81)
- Terrorist attacks boosted the F.L.N.’s diplomatic standing despite revulsion (similarity 0.81)
- Metropolitan terrorism alienated the French Left that supported Algerian independence (similarity 0.81)