The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers

Evidence

It was a “war of peace” in that no declaration of hostilities was ever made (unless one should recognise the first FLN proclamation of 1 November 1954 as such), and during most of the eight years the vast majority of Frenchmen lived unaffected by it. Equally, it was undeniably and horribly savage, bringing death to an estimated one million Muslim Algerians and the expulsion from their homes of approximately the same number of European settlers. If the one side practised unspeakable mutilations, the other tortured and, once it took hold, there seemed no halting the pitiless spread of violence. As at a certain moment in the Battle of Verdun in 1916, it seemed as if events had escaped all human control; often, in Algeria, the essential tragedy was heightened by the feeling that—with a little more magnanimity, a little more trust, moderation and compassion—the worst might have been avoided. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 9

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘war of peace’ concept foundational to the book’s title — a savage war waged without any declaration of hostilities.
• XREF: connects to: The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people; Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people.; Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates (+3 more)

Related

• The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people (similarity 0.95)
• Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates (similarity 0.95)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.89)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.83)
• Algerians fighting for France outnumbered those fighting for independence (similarity 0.81)
• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.81)
• The Battle of Algiers marked the end of any possibility of negotiated settlement (similarity 0.80)
• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.80)
• By 1917 only a fifth of Algeria’s non-Muslim settlers were French-born. (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.79)
• The Evian peace abandoned up to 150,000 Algerian collaborators to massacre (similarity 0.79)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.79)
• A lingering Algerian hatred of French rule simmers until it erupts into war (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria #expands (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 91