Revolutionary leaders who opposed Boumedienne met violent deaths in exile

Evidence

Declaring in 1969 that “seven years of independence were worse than seven years of war”, Krim was sentenced to death (in absentia) on charges of treason and conspiring with foreign powers. He took to travelling heavily armed, but his undoing was indirectly caused by the sudden coming to notoriety of Leila Khaled and the Palestinian hijackers in the autumn of 1970; in an airport check his automatic was found and removed from him. A few days later he was discovered weaponless and murdered in a Frankfurt hotel. The means of his death seems, ironically, to have been the same as that which he had tacitly approved for Ramdane Abane in 1957 — strangling. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1674 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

What was perhaps the F.L.N.’s most serious leadership crisis of the war now boiled down to a straightforward challenge by the army hard-liners—headed by Boumedienne and backed by the absentee Ben Bella — to the political leadership of the F.L.N. Boumedienne had achieved in very few months a remarkable restructuring of the army (now 35,000 strong), which accorded him its unconditional loyalty, and, further reinforced by the flow of heavy weapons from the Communist bloc, his power and authority had reached imposing heights and continued to rise. Throughout Evian and Lugrin he had kept up a harassing fire on Krim for being “soft” on the French; which, indeed, went far to account for Krim’s bouts of unanticipated intransigence. In addition, Boumedienne and the new young chiefs he had appointed under him were showing thoughts that extended beyond the métier, about the political future of independent Algeria. They considered that it should be markedly more Socialist-orientated and authoritarian than intended by Krim and the “old-guard” F.L.N. politicians. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1445 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The G.P.R.A. reshuffle purged moderates and elevated Boumedienne’s faction; The revolution’s leaders often met deaths mirroring the violence they sanctioned — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1674; Army hard-liners under Boumedienne challenged the F.L.N. political leadership — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1445 (+2 more)

Related

• The revolution’s leaders often met deaths mirroring the violence they sanctioned (similarity 0.91)
• Post-independence leadership rivalries turned lethal within the F.L.N. (similarity 0.83)
• Boumedienne’s army challenge split the F.L.N. leadership into doctrinaire socialist and old-guard factions. (similarity 0.83)
• Boumedienne’s 1961 resignation letter attacked the F.L.N. leadership as corrupt and anarchic. (similarity 0.83)
• The G.P.R.A. reshuffle purged moderates and elevated Boumedienne’s faction (similarity 0.82)
• Interior-exterior rivalry among leaders threatened the F.L.N. as much as French pressure. (similarity 0.82)
• The Algerian negotiating camp was deeply split between Boumedienne’s hard-liners and Krim’s politicos. (similarity 0.81)
• Army hard-liners under Boumedienne challenged the F.L.N. political leadership (similarity 0.81)
• Abane’s killing elevated the colonels over the politicals in the FLN (similarity 0.79)
• The first paragraph blends description and foreshadowing of Boussouf and Boumedienne’s rise. (similarity 0.79)
• F.L.N. power struggles intensified as independence approached. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The revolution’s leaders often met deaths mirroring the violence they sanctioned #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1674
• Post-independence leadership rivalries turned lethal within the F.L.N. #expands (0.50)
• Army hard-liners under Boumedienne challenged the F.L.N. political leadership #complicates (0.30) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1445