The F.L.N. terrorized collaborators and issued edicts to cripple settler economic interests.

Evidence

Worse still, the F.L.N. seemed to be switching their attacks from barracks and police stations to “softer” targets. Brutal murders of Muslim “friends of France”, from caids to humble village constables, multiplied, totalling eighty-eight in April alone, with a similar number hideously mutilated — as a terrible warning for the rest. At the same time the F.L.N. issued an edict enforcing a ban on Muslims smoking or drinking alcohol, as an economic blow against the pied noir tobacco- or vine-growers like Senator Borgeaud. Penalty for a first offence was the cutting off of lips or nose; for a second, égorgement — or what the army dubbed with black humour, “the Kabyle smile”. Most nations have their favourite unpleasant way of death; to the Algerians throat-slitting is associated with the killing of sheep, and therefore the most humiliating fate an enemy can be made to suffer. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 352

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the specifically Algerian cultural meaning of égorgement (throat-slitting) as the most humiliating death, tied to sheep-slaughter.
• XREF: Connects to later ‘regroupment’ and internment camps built on Algerian soil — Long Kesh analogy the author draws. — connects to: Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image.; The F.L.N. terrorized Muslim collaborators and used mutilation as an economic and symbolic weapon; F.L.N. terror silenced Muslim informants and paralyzed collaboration with the French — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 323 (+1 more)

Related

• The F.L.N. terrorized Muslim collaborators and used mutilation as an economic and symbolic weapon (similarity 0.95)
• F.L.N. terror silenced Muslim informants and paralyzed collaboration with the French (similarity 0.88)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.84)
• Rural Algerians had labeled every local European before the F.L.N. approached any of them. (similarity 0.84)
• Indiscriminate F.L.N. bombing alienated the Muslim working class (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. targeted killings aimed to sever European-Muslim contact and spread mutual suspicion (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terror killed six times more Muslims than Europeans (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.82)
• Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image. (similarity 0.82)
• F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery (similarity 0.81)
• F.L.N. shifted its terrorist focus to metropolitan France (similarity 0.80)
• French repression’s martyrs and the F.L.N.’s mere survival drove its 1955 recruitment (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.80)
• FLN gained most from French brutal strike-breaking methods. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• F.L.N. terror silenced Muslim informants and paralyzed collaboration with the French #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 323
• The FLN targeted native police to cripple French counterinsurgency. #exemplifies (0.60)