Interior Wilaya commanders wielded power greater than the exiled G.P.R.A. government.

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the interior/exterior conflict recurring through the book, echoing earlier chapters on the C.C.E. and Abane liquidation. — connects to: Interior F.L.N. commanders sought a separate peace that bypassed the G.P.R.A.; Worn-down interior fighters threatened to accept de Gaulle’s terms without the G.P.R.A.; Wilaya commanders used purges to challenge G.P.R.A. political authority (+4 more)

Related

• Wilaya commanders used purges to challenge G.P.R.A. political authority (similarity 0.93)
• Worn-down interior fighters threatened to accept de Gaulle’s terms without the G.P.R.A. (similarity 0.90)
• Interior fighters threatened to break from the G.P.R.A. and negotiate directly with de Gaulle. (similarity 0.88)
• Interior F.L.N. commanders sought a separate peace that bypassed the G.P.R.A. (similarity 0.87)
• The G.P.R.A. liquidated the Wilaya 4 leaders who negotiated with de Gaulle. (similarity 0.83)
• La bleuite purges crippled Wilaya 4 even as commanders fooled French intelligence (similarity 0.83)
• French intelligence ran a months-long fake-radio coup against Wilaya 5. (similarity 0.80)
• French intelligence triggered self-destructive purges within the F.L.N. Wilayas. (similarity 0.80)
• Wilaya 4 purged its own students and intellectuals on pretexts of wrong revolutionary stance. (similarity 0.79)
• A single commander’s purge executed as many as three thousand Algerians (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Low turnout in May 1960 elections betrayed the G.P.R.A.’s commanding influence over Algerians. #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1250
• La bleuite purges crippled Wilaya 4 even as commanders fooled French intelligence #complicates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1175