Interior F.L.N. commanders sought a separate peace that bypassed the G.P.R.A.

Evidence

By the end of 1958 Amirouche and his fellow commanders had their Wilayas in a grip of terror, while jointly the power they exerted in relation to the absentee G.P.R.A. was hardly less daunting. Hard on the heels of the purge in his own Wilaya, Amirouche was writing a fierce letter to the G.P.R.A. in Tunis, accusing it of bourgeois taints and of half-heartedness in its attempts to breach the Morice Line, and calling upon it to launch a “national purification” similar to his own. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 982 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Approaching peace intensified internal F.L.N. power struggles rather than uniting it; Worn-down interior fighters threatened to accept de Gaulle’s terms without the G.P.R.A.; The F.L.N. executed Si Salah for breaching discipline in treating with the French (+5 more)

Related

• Interior fighters threatened to break from the G.P.R.A. and negotiate directly with de Gaulle. (similarity 0.94)
• Worn-down interior fighters threatened to accept de Gaulle’s terms without the G.P.R.A. (similarity 0.93)
• The G.P.R.A. liquidated the Wilaya 4 leaders who negotiated with de Gaulle. (similarity 0.88)
• Interior Wilaya commanders wielded power greater than the exiled G.P.R.A. government. (similarity 0.87)
• Wilaya commanders used purges to challenge G.P.R.A. political authority (similarity 0.86)
• The F.L.N. executed Si Salah for breaching discipline in treating with the French (similarity 0.85)
• De Gaulle distrusted Si Salah’s renegades as turncoats against hierarchy. (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. created the G.P.R.A. to counter de Gaulle and reclaim the initiative. (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. executed rebel commanders who had negotiated secretly with de Gaulle (similarity 0.83)
• French offensives shattered the F.L.N.’s interior command-and-control network by 1959 (similarity 0.82)
• F.L.N. deliberately sabotaged its own negotiating openings to deny de Gaulle international credit (similarity 0.81)
• French intelligence triggered self-destructive purges within the F.L.N. Wilayas. (similarity 0.81)
• De Gaulle’s public appeal to the G.P.R.A. sealed Si Salah’s fate (similarity 0.81)
• Post-independence leadership rivalries turned lethal within the F.L.N. (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle appealed directly to the G.P.R.A. despite the private deal with Si Salah (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Interior fighters threatened to break from the G.P.R.A. and negotiate directly with de Gaulle. #corroborates (0.90)
• Worn-down interior fighters threatened to accept de Gaulle’s terms without the G.P.R.A. #corroborates (0.85)
• Interior Wilaya commanders wielded power greater than the exiled G.P.R.A. government. #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 982
• The F.L.N. executed Si Salah for breaching discipline in treating with the French #expands (0.50)
• The F.L.N. executed rebel commanders who had negotiated secretly with de Gaulle #expands (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1192
• Approaching peace intensified internal F.L.N. power struggles rather than uniting it #complicates (0.40)
• The G.P.R.A. liquidated the Wilaya 4 leaders who negotiated with de Gaulle. #expands (0.40)
• De Gaulle appealed directly to the G.P.R.A. despite the private deal with Si Salah #qualifies (0.35) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1189