The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery

Evidence

The common error of the one and the other is to believe that they are defending a just cause, killing for a just cause, and risking an unjust death. They become cruel like a hunted beast…. Those truly responsible keep a prudent distance. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 644 (#expands, via linked claim)

We want to show in this first study that on the Algerian soil a new society has come to birth. The men and women of Algeria today resemble neither those of 1930 nor those of 1954, nor yet those of 1957. The old Algeria is dead. All the innocent blood that has flowed onto the national soil has produced a new humanity and no one must fail to recognize this fact. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 86 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war; Modern Algeria is inseparably the child of wartime Algeria; The barricade massacre crossed a catastrophic frontier in the Algerian war. (+3 more)

Related

• Modern Algeria is inseparably the child of wartime Algeria (similarity 0.87)
• Both sides in the Algerian war believed they fought for a just cause (similarity 0.87)
• Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious. (similarity 0.86)
• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.85)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.84)
• Each Algerian generation grows harder rather than wearier against colonialism (similarity 0.84)
• The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people (similarity 0.84)
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial war generated a new Algerian humanity arising from the blood shed (similarity 0.83)
• The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers (similarity 0.83)
• The barricade massacre crossed a catastrophic frontier in the Algerian war. (similarity 0.83)
• The national conflict canalized Algerian anger that had previously surfaced as common crime (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial violence against families forged Algerian national unity through shared suffering (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates (similarity 0.82)
• The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Both sides in the Algerian war believed they fought for a just cause #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 644
• Colonial war generated a new Algerian humanity arising from the blood shed #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 86