Wilaya 4 purged its own students and intellectuals on pretexts of wrong revolutionary stance.

Evidence

By the summer of 1959 all was havoc, its leader, Si M’hamed, having been encouraged—partly by the example of Amirouche, partly as a result of assiduous “moling” by Léger’s teams—to carry out a murderous purge of the numerous young students and intellectuals who had joined the Wilaya on fleeing from the Battle of Algiers. The “capital” crimes of which they were found guilty often amounted to little more than asking questions, or revealing an “incorrect revolutionary stance”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 981

Categorization

• QUESTION: Parallel to other revolutionary self-purges of intellectuals (Stalinist purges, Cultural Revolution) is worth chasing.
• XREF: connects to: French intelligence triggered self-destructive purges within the F.L.N. Wilayas. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 980; La bleuite purges crippled Wilaya 4 even as commanders fooled French intelligence — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1175

Related

• La bleuite purges crippled Wilaya 4 even as commanders fooled French intelligence (similarity 0.89)
• French intelligence triggered self-destructive purges within the F.L.N. Wilayas. (similarity 0.87)
• Wilaya 4 pioneered forms of revolutionary warfare that worried the French command (similarity 0.84)
• French intelligence ran a months-long fake-radio coup against Wilaya 5. (similarity 0.83)
• Wilaya commanders used purges to challenge G.P.R.A. political authority (similarity 0.82)
• French disinformation exploiting Algerian internal mistrust triggered murderous self-purges (similarity 0.82)
• The G.P.R.A. liquidated the Wilaya 4 leaders who negotiated with de Gaulle. (similarity 0.81)
• A single commander’s purge executed as many as three thousand Algerians (similarity 0.81)
• French intelligence planted forged documents that triggered murderous internal purges (similarity 0.80)
• Interior Wilaya commanders wielded power greater than the exiled G.P.R.A. government. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• La bleuite purges crippled Wilaya 4 even as commanders fooled French intelligence #corroborates (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1175