Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image.

Evidence

This time he tried a new technique that was ingeniously simple but even more cruel in that it struck equally at ordinary, working-class Muslims and at Europeans. … The casualties of the innocents were this time almost equally divided between Muslims and Europeans, which did little to improve the image of the F.L.N. among the Muslim population. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 647 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Even after Philippeville, however, it was still their fellow Muslims who bore the brunt of F.L.N. terror. Over the first two and a half years of the war 6,352 against 1,035 Europeans were estimated, as a minimum figure, to have been killed in F.L.N. attacks against civilians. During the Yugoslav partisan war of 1941 to 1945, much of Tito’s efforts was expended in combat against Mihailović’s Serb četniks, and such a simultaneous internal “civil war” is a not infrequent concomitant of revolutionary struggle against an external enemy. To the F.L.N. the Number One enemy at home was constituted by the “traitor” M.N.A. supporters of Lahouel, and the absent Messali—once again under house-arrest in France. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 421 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: F.L.N. terror killed six times more Muslims than Europeans; Indiscriminate F.L.N. bombing alienated the Muslim working class — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 647; F.L.N. killed six Muslims for every European civilian in the war’s first years — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 421 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Indiscriminate F.L.N. bombing alienated the Muslim working class #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 647
• F.L.N. terror killed six times more Muslims than Europeans #contradicts (0.60)
• F.L.N. killed six Muslims for every European civilian in the war’s first years #contradicts (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 421
• The F.L.N. justified civilian massacre as reprisal for collective repression #responds-to (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 373
• The F.L.N. massacred 301 peasants at Mélouza and blamed the French paras #responds-to (0.40)
• The F.L.N. terrorized collaborators and issued edicts to cripple settler economic interests. #responds-to (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 352