Rural Algerians had labeled every local European before the F.L.N. approached any of them.

Evidence

The various tribes habitually lived in a state of bloody, Corsican-style vendetta with each other, but would unite when threatened by an outside force. They would complain to the administration at its failure to protect them from banditry; yet, at the same time, they would as a matter of principle not denounce a bandit, or refuse him food and lodging. It was a system ready-made for exploitation by the F.L.N. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 264 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N.; F.L.N. targeted killings aimed to sever European-Muslim contact and spread mutual suspicion — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 420; European settlers actively aided the F.L.N. and died for the Algerian cause (+1 more)

Related

• F.L.N. targeted killings aimed to sever European-Muslim contact and spread mutual suspicion (similarity 0.86)
• Aurès tribal customs of silence and vendetta were ready-made for F.L.N. exploitation. (similarity 0.85)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.85)
• The F.L.N. terrorized collaborators and issued edicts to cripple settler economic interests. (similarity 0.84)
• European settlers actively aided the F.L.N. and died for the Algerian cause (similarity 0.84)
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. terrorized Muslim collaborators and used mutilation as an economic and symbolic weapon (similarity 0.82)
• The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.82)
• F.L.N. atrocities escalated to blood-draining of European victims in response to O.A.S. outrages (similarity 0.82)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. killed six Muslims for every European civilian in the war’s first years (similarity 0.80)
• Witnessing torture pushed a European medical family to collaborate with the F.L.N. (similarity 0.80)
• Pieds noirs faced Europe while Muslim Algerians faced inland Africa (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. atrocity narratives escalated in grisliness and found partial forensic corroboration. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• European settlers actively aided the F.L.N. and died for the Algerian cause #contradicts (0.70)
• Aurès tribal customs of silence and vendetta were ready-made for F.L.N. exploitation. #expands (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 264
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. #expands (0.40)
• F.L.N. targeted killings aimed to sever European-Muslim contact and spread mutual suspicion #expands (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 420