Post-1992 civil war violence directly echoed the throat-slitting techniques of the colonial war.

Evidence

The techniques of murder equally had echoes from the grisly égorgements, the throat-slittings, from days of the Savage War, the “Kablyie Smile” as French servicemen dubbed it with unpleasant humour, frequently accompanied by castration. Beheading victims became common, their heads stuck on road signs as a kind of gruesome sport. Algerians themselves spoke of the “blind war,” but in its prolonged, random senselessness it came almost more to resemble Europe’s Thirty Years’ War of the seventeenth century. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 42

Categorization

• XREF: Traces the ‘Savage War of Peace’ concept’s dark permutations — the terror technique crossing from anti-colonial resistance to intra-Algerian slaughter. — connects to: 1990s atrocities reprised the throat-slitting techniques of the original war; Colonial subjects act out violently to end unbearable psychological tension — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 553

Related

• 1990s atrocities reprised the throat-slitting techniques of the original war (similarity 0.91)
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.80)
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth (similarity 0.79)
• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.78)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial subjects act out violently to end unbearable psychological tension #qualifies (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 553