Post-independence rivalry among Muslim leaders exceeded wartime bitterness against France
Evidence
On 30 June, the day before Algeria held its referendum, the G.P.R.A. took the unprecedented step of dissolving the General Staff and dismissing Boumedienne, amid scenes that were the most tumultuous ever witnessed within the leadership of the F.L.N. Writing of this period in Le Monde one pro-F.L.N. French journalist, Jean Daniel, was “shocked by the intensity and vindictiveness of the rivalry, and astonished to find that mutual recrimination among Muslim leaders was much worse than it had been between the rebels and the French”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1632
Categorization
- XREF: Supports the book’s core thesis that the French Revolution pattern — unity against a common enemy dissolving afterward — recurs in Algerian decolonization. — connects to: The FLN was riven by nested internal conflicts beyond the fight against France; Loyal Muslim notables lost nearly everything after Algerian independence; Post-independence leadership rivalries turned lethal within the F.L.N.
Related
- Loyal Muslim notables lost nearly everything after Algerian independence (similarity 0.87)
- Interior-exterior rivalry among leaders threatened the F.L.N. as much as French pressure. (similarity 0.86)
- Post-independence leadership rivalries turned lethal within the F.L.N. (similarity 0.85)
- F.L.N. power struggles intensified as independence approached. (similarity 0.85)
- Boumedienne’s army challenge split the F.L.N. leadership into doctrinaire socialist and old-guard factions. (similarity 0.81)
- Rapidly shifting loyalties in wartime France weakened Algerian trust in any authority (similarity 0.81)
- F.L.N. wartime dissents were more personal than ideological. (similarity 0.81)
- French repression pushed postwar Algerian nationalism toward armed extremism (similarity 0.81)
- The Algiers defeat exposed a fatal interior-exterior rift in F.L.N. leadership (similarity 0.80)
- Algeria’s moderate third force was crushed between the F.L.N. and the O.A.S. (similarity 0.80)
- Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments (similarity 0.80)
- By late 1958 Muslim sentiment had hardened toward independence (similarity 0.80)
- Kabyle-Arab rivalry forced the FLN into a collective leadership without a supreme chief (similarity 0.79)
- Algerians were forced to shift loyalty across four French authorities within three years (similarity 0.79)
- Boumedienne’s 1961 resignation letter attacked the F.L.N. leadership as corrupt and anarchic. (similarity 0.79)