The first paragraph blends description and foreshadowing of Boussouf and Boumedienne’s rise.

Evidence

During the night of 16 November the four colonels were seized at a conspiratorial meeting near El-Kef, together with some twenty of their supporters. Altogether fifty-four suspects were rounded up on Krim’s orders, and in March the ringleaders appeared before a court-martial on Tunisian territory. The presiding judge was an austerely efficient but little-known young colonel who first appeared as Boussouf’s aide in Morocco. He had then taken over command of the Western Front where he had permitted none of the discords which had so riven its Tunisian counterpart. His name was Houari Boumedienne. The four colonels were condemned to death, and shot the following day; while the majors who had followed them, considered corrupted by their seniors, were given only two years’ imprisonment. But the sentences passed by Boumedienne were unprecedentedly harsh by (official) F.L.N. standards, and exemplary. The A.L.N.’s strong man had arrived, and from this moment on its whole character began to show a steady change. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 989 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Ghadafi, Muammar, 557 … Krim, Belkacem, 77–8; and O.S., 75; and revolt in Aurès, 84, 94; in group photograph, 87; one of neuf historiques, 96, 195; and Kabylia, 100, 103–4, 335, 537; and maquisards, 113; promoted, 131; and Amirouche, 131; and Abane, 133, 226, 228–9; and assassinations, 134; and Chaulet, 139; and Abbas, 140; and Soummam Conference, 144; and C.C.E., 145; flees Algeria, 208; Ouamrane and, 224, 226; arrives in Tunis, 225; “Force K” and, 256–7; and G.P.R.A., 315–16; in El Moudjahid, 226n; and “self-determination”, 348; attacked at C.N.R.A., 385–6; and Si Salah, 358, 394; as pin-up, 404; to Peking and Moscow, 405; and Boumedienne, 411, 476, 509, 547, 556; and Khrushchev, 464; at Evian negotiations, 468–72; his eclipse begins, 477–8; attitude to negotiations, 508; visits Ben Bella, 509–10; at “Yéti” negotiations, 511, 514n 515; at Fifth C.N.R.A., 519; at 2nd Evian, 519–20; his casualty figures, 538; murdered, 556, 561 — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1756 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Houari Boumedienne’s harsh court-martial marked the A.L.N.’s emergence as strongman. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 989; The G.P.R.A. reshuffle purged moderates and elevated Boumedienne’s faction; Wartime Algeria’s traits persisted in Boumedienne’s postwar single-party dictatorship. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1676 (+8 more)

Related

• The G.P.R.A. reshuffle purged moderates and elevated Boumedienne’s faction (similarity 0.92)
• Houari Boumedienne’s harsh court-martial marked the A.L.N.’s emergence as strongman. (similarity 0.89)
• The Algerian negotiating camp was deeply split between Boumedienne’s hard-liners and Krim’s politicos. (similarity 0.89)
• Army chief-of-staff post shifted real F.L.N. power to Boumedienne’s hardliners (similarity 0.88)
• Boumedienne’s harsh court-martial executions launched his rise to A.L.N. strongman (similarity 0.88)
• Army hard-liners like Boumedienne drove the F.L.N.’s negotiators to intransigence. (similarity 0.87)
• G.P.R.A. leadership shifted from Abane’s hard line toward Boumedienne. (similarity 0.86)
• Army hard-liners under Boumedienne challenged the F.L.N. political leadership (similarity 0.86)
• Boumedienne’s 1961 resignation letter attacked the F.L.N. leadership as corrupt and anarchic. (similarity 0.84)
• Boumedienne’s army challenge split the F.L.N. leadership into doctrinaire socialist and old-guard factions. (similarity 0.84)
• de Gaulle’s backing of moderates collapsed as hard-liners took over the F.L.N. (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. hardliners pushed tighter population control that moderates feared would ruin negotiation prospects. (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. leadership regrouped in Tunis after losing Algiers to the French. (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. colonel elite voted to hand Abane’s fate to Boussouf (similarity 0.82)
• The F.L.N. hard-line reshuffle doomed de Gaulle’s ‘association’ option (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Houari Boumedienne’s harsh court-martial marked the A.L.N.’s emergence as strongman. #exemplifies (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 989
• The G.P.R.A. reshuffle purged moderates and elevated Boumedienne’s faction #exemplifies (0.75)
• G.P.R.A. leadership shifted from Abane’s hard line toward Boumedienne. #exemplifies (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1756
• Army chief-of-staff post shifted real F.L.N. power to Boumedienne’s hardliners #exemplifies (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1172
• Wartime Algeria’s traits persisted in Boumedienne’s postwar single-party dictatorship. #exemplifies (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1676
• Army hard-liners like Boumedienne drove the F.L.N.’s negotiators to intransigence. #exemplifies (0.70)
• Army hard-liners under Boumedienne challenged the F.L.N. political leadership #exemplifies (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1445
• The Algerian negotiating camp was deeply split between Boumedienne’s hard-liners and Krim’s politicos. #exemplifies (0.60)
• The F.L.N. colonel elite voted to hand Abane’s fate to Boussouf #exemplifies (0.60)
• Ben Bella sided with Boumedienne’s hard-liners and insisted on tougher terms against French concessions #exemplifies (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1551
• Krim and the politicians ratified the peace over Boumedienne’s objections #exemplifies (0.50)