The O.A.S. killed more Algerian civilians than the F.L.N. ever did

Evidence

In less than a year the O.A.S. had killed 2,360 people in Algeria, and wounded another 5,418; according to the calculations of Vitalis Cros, in the Algiers zone alone their activities over the last six months of the war had claimed three times as many civilian victims as had the F.L.N. from the beginning of 1956 onwards; i.e. including the Battle of Algiers. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1615

Categorization

• XREF: Runs against the conventional image of the F.L.N. as the terror side — connects to debates over who bore responsibility for civilian deaths.
• SEED: A corrective essay angle: the settler counterterror killed more civilians than the independence movement, overturning the ‘good settlers vs terrorist F.L.N.’ narrative.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1615

Related

• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.83)
• Ten Algerian civilians died for every combatant killed (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s official war-dead figure of one million exceeds all credible estimates (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.81)
• O.A.S. killings escalated from six monthly deaths in August to 553 by February 1962 (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians fighting for France outnumbered those fighting for independence (similarity 0.80)
• The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. atrocity narratives escalated in grisliness and found partial forensic corroboration. (similarity 0.79)
• F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing (similarity 0.79)
• The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers (similarity 0.79)
• The OAS death toll in one month reached 553 through forced civilian mobilization (similarity 0.78)
• The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria. (similarity 0.78)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.78)
• The OAS escalated to total war against French authority to force general paralysis (similarity 0.78)
• F.L.N. atrocities escalated to blood-draining of European victims in response to O.A.S. outrages (similarity 0.78)