The Evian peace abandoned up to 150,000 Algerian collaborators to massacre

Evidence

As General Challe had feared (and it was one of the prime factors in his revolt), the peace agreements contained no guarantee sufficient to save these Algerians now from the wrath of their countrymen, in whose eyes they were nothing but traitors. Out of the quarter of a million who had worked for the French less than 15,000 had managed to escape from Algeria … Compelled by the terms of the Evian Agreements to stand by and witness this massacre of their former allies, the agony of the French army was extreme. In some cases, acting under orders, units had been forced to disarm the wretched harkis on the promise of replacing them with better weapons — then sneaked away in the middle of the night, abandoning them to their fate. It was a tragedy even more odious than that of the Russian prisoners-of-war handed back by the Western allies in 1945. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1634

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the betrayed-collaborator theme of the Russian POW handovers in 1945; connects to broader pattern of allies abandoning loyal local forces (Vietnam, Afghanistan). — connects to: French critics charged that Evian betrayed loyal Muslim harkis and gave away petroleum.; The Evian Agreements abandoned the harkis to massacre; The Evian cease-fire immediately provoked its bloodiest violence yet. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1600 (+4 more)
• QUESTION: Horne’s estimate range 30,000-150,000 is vast — worth chasing later sources on harki mortality numbers.

Related

• French critics charged that Evian betrayed loyal Muslim harkis and gave away petroleum. (similarity 0.92)
• The Evian Agreements abandoned the harkis to massacre (similarity 0.92)
• France abandoned its Muslim auxiliaries, the harkis, to slaughter (similarity 0.85)
• The Evian cease-fire immediately provoked its bloodiest violence yet. (similarity 0.81)
• Harki recruitment depended on France’s pledge never to abandon Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates (similarity 0.79)
• The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers (similarity 0.79)
• The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people (similarity 0.79)
• Harki recruitment depended on de Gaulle’s implicit guarantee of French permanence (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s 1984 amnesties rehabilitated wartime victims but excluded harkis and Abane (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war #expands (0.70)
• Algeria’s 1984 amnesties rehabilitated wartime victims but excluded harkis and Abane #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1682
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery #exemplifies (0.55)