French authorities repatriated anti-French Algerians while abandoning loyal harkis to slaughter

Evidence

‘You know, we made a mess of things with the Arabs. We sent back the ones who were shouting “Vive la France” – the harkis, the auxiliaries – and they got their throats cut. And the ones we let in were the ones who’d been shooting at us.’ — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 902

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the reader’s interest in how professed loyalty (harkis shouting ‘Vive la France’) gets ignored while behavior (shooting) is rewarded — a direct case of conviction-vs-actions divergence in state policy. — connects to: France abandoned its Muslim auxiliaries, the harkis, to slaughter — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1619; The French state classified settlers and harkis unequally to erase Algeria’s Frenchness. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 266
• SHARE: A grim, concrete anecdote about how formal professions of loyalty were ignored and reversed during actual selection of who gets to flee — worth sharing with someone working on refugee/resettlement ethics.

Broader Connections

• France abandoned its Muslim auxiliaries, the harkis, to slaughter #corroborates (1.00) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1619