Si Salah was executed by the FLN, not killed by the French

Evidence

In November 1984, to mark the 30th anniversary of the opening of the “Algerian War of National Liberation”, President Chadli Bendjedid decreed an act of amnesty embracing posthumously some fifty F.L.N. leaders who had fallen prey to internal dispute, both during and after the war. Prominent among these was Si Salah. At the time of the 1984 amnesty, among Algerian veterans knowledgeable about the episode, the author was also able to meet the son of Si Salah (alias Zamoun) himself. He was eight at the time of his father’s death and anxious to ascertain the precise facts surrounding it. It is now accepted that, in the first place, the grievances of Si Salah and Wilaya 4 against Boumedienne’s “exterior” were real indeed. Secondly, Si Salah on his return from Paris was not (as surmised on p. 393) killed by a French patrol. Instead it appears that, after spending nearly a whole year in semi-captivity, Si Salah was executed on the orders of Boumedienne and the G.P.R.A. As of 1984, the official view of Si Salah seems to be an essentially tragic one; he had breached discipline in treating with the French, but was no traitor — simply a victim of the wiles of de Gaulle at his most Machiavellian. Such revelations about the inner workings of the F.L.N. could certainly not have been made in 1973, while Boumedienne was still alive. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1222 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The F.L.N. executed Si Salah for breaching discipline in treating with the French; The FLN itself executed Si Salah, not a French patrol — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1222

Related

• The FLN itself executed Si Salah, not a French patrol (similarity 0.96)
• The F.L.N. executed Si Salah for breaching discipline in treating with the French (similarity 0.92)
• De Gaulle distrusted Si Salah’s renegades as turncoats against hierarchy. (similarity 0.87)
• The F.L.N. executed rebel commanders who had negotiated secretly with de Gaulle (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s public appeal to the G.P.R.A. sealed Si Salah’s fate (similarity 0.81)
• Renouncing Si Salah forced de Gaulle to negotiate solely with the FLN (similarity 0.79)
• F.L.N. propaganda silently erased the execution of the four rebel colonels (similarity 0.78)
• Imprisoned FLN leaders sanctioned Abane’s execution except Ait Ahmed (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The FLN itself executed Si Salah, not a French patrol #corroborates (1.00) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1222