The FLN itself executed Si Salah, not a French patrol

Evidence

In November 1984, to mark the 30th anniversary of the opening of the “Algerian War of National Liberation”, President Chadli Bendjedid decreed an act of amnesty embracing posthumously some fifty F.L.N. leaders who had fallen prey to internal dispute, both during and after the war. Prominent among these was Si Salah. At the time of the 1984 amnesty, among Algerian veterans knowledgeable about the episode, the author was also able to meet the son of Si Salah (alias Zamoun) himself. He was eight at the time of his father’s death and anxious to ascertain the precise facts surrounding it. It is now accepted that, in the first place, the grievances of Si Salah and Wilaya 4 against Boumedienne’s “exterior” were real indeed. Secondly, Si Salah on his return from Paris was not (as surmised on p. 393) killed by a French patrol. Instead it appears that, after spending nearly a whole year in semi-captivity, Si Salah was executed on the orders of Boumedienne and the G.P.R.A. As of 1984, the official view of Si Salah seems to be an essentially tragic one; he had breached discipline in treating with the French, but was no traitor — simply a victim of the wiles of de Gaulle at his most Machiavellian. Such revelations about the inner workings of the F.L.N. could certainly not have been made in 1973, while Boumedienne was still alive. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1222

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corrects and builds on the earlier death-of-Si-Salah account; rewarding for readers tracking the ‘interior-exterior’ split among FLN wilayas. — connects to: The Si Salah fiasco triggered the Generals’ Revolt. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1201; De Gaulle distrusted Si Salah’s renegades as turncoats against hierarchy.; The F.L.N. executed Si Salah for breaching discipline in treating with the French (+2 more)
• QUESTION: The 1984 amnesty posthumously rehabilitating fifty FLN victims of internal dispute raises the question of how many other wartime deaths were internal liquidations misattributed to the French.

Related

• Si Salah was executed by the FLN, not killed by the French (similarity 0.96)
• The F.L.N. executed Si Salah for breaching discipline in treating with the French (similarity 0.92)
• De Gaulle distrusted Si Salah’s renegades as turncoats against hierarchy. (similarity 0.88)
• The F.L.N. executed rebel commanders who had negotiated secretly with de Gaulle (similarity 0.84)
• De Gaulle’s public appeal to the G.P.R.A. sealed Si Salah’s fate (similarity 0.81)
• The G.P.R.A. liquidated the Wilaya 4 leaders who negotiated with de Gaulle. (similarity 0.80)
• The Si Salah fiasco triggered the Generals’ Revolt. (similarity 0.79)
• Imprisoned FLN leaders sanctioned Abane’s execution except Ait Ahmed (similarity 0.79)
• Renouncing Si Salah forced de Gaulle to negotiate solely with the FLN (similarity 0.78)