The G.P.R.A. reshuffle purged moderates and elevated Boumedienne’s faction

Evidence

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Among them there existed parallel rifts to those within the G.P.R.A., with Ben Bella and Khider tending to support Boumedienne and the hard-liners. Analysing the latest exchanges between Paris and the G.P.R.A., Ben Bella insisted on the stiffening of certain terms and the exaction of more concessions from the French. He was particularly outraged by the proposal that the naval base of Mers-el-Kébir should remain in French hands for another fifty years. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1551 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The first paragraph blends description and foreshadowing of Boussouf and Boumedienne’s rise.; Fear of army conflict pushed Krim to decline the G.P.R.A. presidency.; Boumedienne’s army challenge split the F.L.N. leadership into doctrinaire socialist and old-guard factions. (+16 more)

Related

• The first paragraph blends description and foreshadowing of Boussouf and Boumedienne’s rise. (similarity 0.92)
• The Algerian negotiating camp was deeply split between Boumedienne’s hard-liners and Krim’s politicos. (similarity 0.88)
• G.P.R.A. leadership shifted from Abane’s hard line toward Boumedienne. (similarity 0.88)
• Boumedienne’s army challenge split the F.L.N. leadership into doctrinaire socialist and old-guard factions. (similarity 0.88)
• Army chief-of-staff post shifted real F.L.N. power to Boumedienne’s hardliners (similarity 0.86)
• de Gaulle’s backing of moderates collapsed as hard-liners took over the F.L.N. (similarity 0.85)
• Army hard-liners under Boumedienne challenged the F.L.N. political leadership (similarity 0.85)
• Army hard-liners like Boumedienne drove the F.L.N.’s negotiators to intransigence. (similarity 0.85)
• The F.L.N. hard-line reshuffle doomed de Gaulle’s ‘association’ option (similarity 0.84)
• Post-independence leadership rivalries turned lethal within the F.L.N. (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N.’s anti-cult declaration deliberately signaled Abane’s impending removal. (similarity 0.83)
• Revolutionary leaders who opposed Boumedienne met violent deaths in exile (similarity 0.82)
• Boumedienne’s 1961 resignation letter attacked the F.L.N. leadership as corrupt and anarchic. (similarity 0.82)
• Interior-exterior rivalry among leaders threatened the F.L.N. as much as French pressure. (similarity 0.81)
• F.L.N. leadership regrouped in Tunis after losing Algiers to the French. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• G.P.R.A. leadership shifted from Abane’s hard line toward Boumedienne. #expands (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1756
• Houari Boumedienne’s harsh court-martial marked the A.L.N.’s emergence as strongman. #expands (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 989
• Ben Bella sided with Boumedienne’s hard-liners and insisted on tougher terms against French concessions #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1551
• The Algerian negotiating camp was deeply split between Boumedienne’s hard-liners and Krim’s politicos. #expands (0.60)
• Army chief-of-staff post shifted real F.L.N. power to Boumedienne’s hardliners #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1172
• Army hard-liners under Boumedienne challenged the F.L.N. political leadership #complicates (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1445
• Revolutionary leaders who opposed Boumedienne met violent deaths in exile #expands (0.55)
• Wilaya commanders used purges to challenge G.P.R.A. political authority #complicates (0.50)
• Krim and the politicians ratified the peace over Boumedienne’s objections #complicates (0.50)
• Post-independence leadership rivalries turned lethal within the F.L.N. #expands (0.45)
• The F.L.N. installed Abbas as G.P.R.A. president mainly as window-dressing. #complicates (0.45)
• de Gaulle’s backing of moderates collapsed as hard-liners took over the F.L.N. #contradicts (0.40)
• Wartime Algeria’s traits persisted in Boumedienne’s postwar single-party dictatorship. #expands (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1676
• The G.P.R.A. deliberately engineered its own rejection to discredit de Gaulle’s initiative. #expands (0.40)
• Interior fighters threatened to break from the G.P.R.A. and negotiate directly with de Gaulle. #contradicts (0.35)