The revolution’s leaders often met deaths mirroring the violence they sanctioned

Evidence

Declaring in 1969 that “seven years of independence were worse than seven years of war”, Krim was sentenced to death (in absentia) on charges of treason and conspiring with foreign powers. He took to travelling heavily armed, but his undoing was indirectly caused by the sudden coming to notoriety of Leila Khaled and the Palestinian hijackers in the autumn of 1970; in an airport check his automatic was found and removed from him. A few days later he was discovered weaponless and murdered in a Frankfurt hotel. The means of his death seems, ironically, to have been the same as that which he had tacitly approved for Ramdane Abane in 1957 — strangling. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1674

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the Algerian revolutionaries’ own internal liquidations, like Ramdane Abane’s strangling at Messadia in 1957, described earlier in the book. — connects to: Revolutionary leaders who opposed Boumedienne met violent deaths in exile; Revolutionary leaders knew arrested women would be tortured to death — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 170; Abane’s killing elevated the colonels over the politicals in the FLN — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 719 (+1 more)
• SEED: A poetic-justice lens on decolonization revolutions: the violence leaders authorized early returns to claim them later.

Related

• Revolutionary leaders who opposed Boumedienne met violent deaths in exile (similarity 0.91)
• Abane’s killing elevated the colonels over the politicals in the FLN (similarity 0.81)
• No Algerian source has refuted accounts of Abane’s assassination (similarity 0.79)
• Revolutionary leaders knew arrested women would be tortured to death (similarity 0.79)