Word: algerianness
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While the Fourth Republic tottered and Moslems in Algerian cities mingled with French colonists in a new and still-uneasy friendship, what of the rebels...
...rebel newspaper El Moudjahid briefly noted last week that one Ramdane Abbane had "died of wounds while inspecting F.L.N. troops on Algerian territory." Behind that brief notice lay a significant story...
...Kabylia region between Algiers and Bougie, Ramdane Abbane graduated from a French lycée, managed to get one of the few civil-service jobs open to Moslems. From the first a hot-eyed revolutionary well-read in Marx, Abbane at 27 belonged to the inner council of the Algerian nationalist movement. Betrayed by an informer, he served five years in French prisons, emerged from jail in 1955 just as the rebellion was gathering strength...
...interrogation" center at El Biar, in suburban Algiers, during June and July 1957. His torturers: paratroopers of the French army's 10th Division-later rebels against the Republic-to whom the use of torture has apparently come to be regarded as a "necessary" weapon against the Algerian nationalists...
Written with spare and simple candor, the book is much more than a scalding footnote to fever-hot headlines. The Question does not stop with the Algerian question but goes on to ask: What does it mean to be a human being? It tells of the shame and glory of man. At the outset, "Alleg's inquisitors were as cocksure in their cynicism as in their brutality. They believed that just as every man is said to have his price, so every man has his breaking point. "You're going to talk! Everybody talks here!" they told...