The founders of the Algerian revolution were mostly dead or imprisoned by 1975

Evidence

Through their objective of wiping out the rebel Organisation Politico-Administrative, General Challe and his predecessors had also effectively killed off many of the best-educated and politically most sophisticated Algerians: the country’s potential leaders. At the same time the corps of native administrators which France — laboriously and always too slowly — had been expanding since 1954 was still far from numerous enough to fulfil the roles so suddenly imposed upon it; added to which, in the first passions of independence many were regarded by the victorious F.L.N. as “quislings” and were promptly sacked — or worse. … Frantz Fanon had predicted that war would achieve unity among the Algerian élite; peace produced quite the opposite. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1628 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Counter-insurgency decapitated Algeria’s educated elite just as independence required them — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1628

Related

• Counter-insurgency decapitated Algeria’s educated elite just as independence required them (similarity 0.91)
• France’s counterinsurgency killed Algeria’s potential post-war leadership (similarity 0.87)
• Algeria’s ingrained secretiveness and post-independence factionalism still obscure the revolution’s history (similarity 0.81)
• French revolutionary education planted the ideas that armed Algerian revolt (similarity 0.80)
• The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s revolution deliberately suppressed individual hero cults out of collectivity (similarity 0.80)
• Rural Algerians underwent a profound revolutionary politicization that French administrators could not reverse. (similarity 0.79)
• Francisation destroyed Algeria’s native political cadres, leaving no negotiating partners. (similarity 0.79)
• The Algerian War proved too recent for any definitive historical account (similarity 0.79)
• Any social revolution in Algeria required breaking colonial ties first (similarity 0.79)
• French assimilation destroyed Algerian leadership cadres that could have been negotiating partners (similarity 0.79)
• Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. (similarity 0.79)
• Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments (similarity 0.79)
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth (similarity 0.79)
• Semi-clandestine contact with Algerians taught European democrats the laws of revolutionary action. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Counter-insurgency decapitated Algeria’s educated elite just as independence required them #corroborates (0.45) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1628