Forced assassination riveted F.L.N. recruits to the cause irreversibly

Evidence

At an early stage in the revolution it became a customary initiation ritual for a new recruit to be made to kill a designated “traitor”, mouchard (police spy or informer), French gendarme officer or colonialist, in the company of a “shadow” who would dispatch the recruit himself should he show any sign of flinching. Admitting this policy in an interview in a Yugoslav journal, Krim stated: “An assassination marks the end of the apprenticeship of each candidate for the A.L.N.” Through this “passingout ceremony” the apprentice became both proven in reliability and bound, Faust-like, to the rebel cause by his act of outlawry. In their actual techniques of liquidation F.L.N. operatives consciously endeavoured to achieve the gruesome, pour épater les bourgeois, or an act of ridicule—to belittle the dead man. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 416 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N.; The F.L.N. terrorized Muslim collaborators and used mutilation as an economic and symbolic weapon; Forcing recruits to kill bound them to the F.L.N. through outlawry — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 416 (+6 more)

Related

• Forcing recruits to kill bound them to the F.L.N. through outlawry (similarity 0.95)
• French repression’s martyrs and the F.L.N.’s mere survival drove its 1955 recruitment (similarity 0.82)
• The F.L.N. recruited Casbah criminals through prison politicization and initiation tests (similarity 0.82)
• FLN gained most from French brutal strike-breaking methods. (similarity 0.80)
• French failed counterinsurgency reprisals drove the uncommitted into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.80)
• French punitive failures drove uncommitted Auresians to join the F.L.N. (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. terrorized collaborators and issued edicts to cripple settler economic interests. (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. terrorized Muslim collaborators and used mutilation as an economic and symbolic weapon (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Forcing recruits to kill bound them to the F.L.N. through outlawry #corroborates (0.95) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 416