War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth

Evidence

One of the first, eminent victims of terrorism that June was the President himself, Mohamed Boudiaf. Almost sole survivor of the greatly respected “neuf historiques”, he had been brought back at seventy-three to head a government of reconciliation. As an echo of the 1950s, two weeks alone of January 1994 saw 116 Algerian policemen assassinated, in a deliberate attempt to sow the kind of fear that had gripped the populace during the struggle against the French. Magistrates, evoluées women who refused to wear the veil (and to whom the Revolution had brought such high hopes of emancipation), novelists, journalists and intellectuals all appeared high on the Fundamentalist hit-list. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algerians rejected colonial medicine not from ignorance but as resistance; Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious.; Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694 (+3 more)

Related

• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France (similarity 0.90)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (similarity 0.87)
• 1990s atrocities reprised the throat-slitting techniques of the original war (similarity 0.86)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern (similarity 0.85)
• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious. (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s post-independence regime was captured by its wartime armed wing. (similarity 0.84)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.82)
• The national conflict canalized Algerian anger that had previously surfaced as common crime (similarity 0.81)
• Brutal French reprisals backfired by deepening Algerian hatred of France (similarity 0.80)
• Boumedienne’s Algeria rejected the personality cult common in postcolonial Arab states (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.80)
• Rapidly shifting loyalties in wartime France weakened Algerian trust in any authority (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France #qualifies (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694