The G.P.R.A. liquidated the Wilaya 4 leaders who negotiated with de Gaulle.

Evidence

According to General Jacquin, as he is today, a “killer” despatched from Tunis from the G.P.R.A. forced Si Mohamed — always the most reluctant of the Wilaya 4 leaders — to return to the fold, and imposed upon him the execution of his guilty peers. Lakhdar, Halim and Abdellatif were summarily put to death, while Si Salah — on account of his seniority and distinction as a maquisard — was ordered to make his way to Tunis and stand trial there. Many months elapsed, unaccountably, with Si Salah apparently still under arrest in Algeria. Jacquin’s B.E.L. attempted a cloak-and-dagger operation to liberate him, but without success. Then, in July the following year, Si Salah, evidently on his way to Tunisia at last, was killed in an ambush by a French patrol; little more than two weeks later, but in another corner of Algeria, Si Mohamed was also tracked down and killed in an opération ponctuelle mounted by the 11th Shock. The coincidence, and curious circumstances, of the deaths of the two leaders have encouraged anti-Gaullists in the French army to speculate, even today, that there may have been more to it all than met the eye. Undeniable it was that, following their deaths, no one was left on the Algerian side able to give evidence about the whole sad story of “Operation Tilsit”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1192 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Interior F.L.N. commanders sought a separate peace that bypassed the G.P.R.A.; La bleuite purges crippled Wilaya 4 even as commanders fooled French intelligence — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1175; Wilaya commanders used purges to challenge G.P.R.A. political authority (+2 more)

Related

• The F.L.N. executed rebel commanders who had negotiated secretly with de Gaulle (similarity 0.92)
• De Gaulle distrusted Si Salah’s renegades as turncoats against hierarchy. (similarity 0.89)
• Interior F.L.N. commanders sought a separate peace that bypassed the G.P.R.A. (similarity 0.88)
• Interior fighters threatened to break from the G.P.R.A. and negotiate directly with de Gaulle. (similarity 0.87)
• Wilaya commanders used purges to challenge G.P.R.A. political authority (similarity 0.87)
• The F.L.N. executed Si Salah for breaching discipline in treating with the French (similarity 0.86)
• La bleuite purges crippled Wilaya 4 even as commanders fooled French intelligence (similarity 0.84)
• Worn-down interior fighters threatened to accept de Gaulle’s terms without the G.P.R.A. (similarity 0.84)
• Interior Wilaya commanders wielded power greater than the exiled G.P.R.A. government. (similarity 0.83)
• De Gaulle’s public appeal to the G.P.R.A. sealed Si Salah’s fate (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. created the G.P.R.A. to counter de Gaulle and reclaim the initiative. (similarity 0.81)
• Wilaya 4 purged its own students and intellectuals on pretexts of wrong revolutionary stance. (similarity 0.81)
• French intelligence triggered self-destructive purges within the F.L.N. Wilayas. (similarity 0.81)
• A single commander’s purge executed as many as three thousand Algerians (similarity 0.80)
• Wilaya 4 pioneered forms of revolutionary warfare that worried the French command (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The F.L.N. executed rebel commanders who had negotiated secretly with de Gaulle #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1192
• Wilaya commanders used purges to challenge G.P.R.A. political authority #complicates (0.75)
• Interior fighters threatened to break from the G.P.R.A. and negotiate directly with de Gaulle. #corroborates (0.70)
• La bleuite purges crippled Wilaya 4 even as commanders fooled French intelligence #complicates (0.65) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1175