Word: fellagha
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...hand at killing rebels, answers: "You are right, 100% right-in theory. But in practice you are going to discover you will have to choose. If you consider that every Arab is innocent until proved guilty, let me tell you you will get your men killed, the fellagha will be kings and you will be transferred, because the parents of soldiers don't like them to be killed and will write to their Deputies that you are a butcher. To raise problems of conscience and to treat possible killers as presumed innocents is a luxury we cannot afford...
...guarantees) of a Major Marcus who, after nine months serving in most regions of Algeria, sums up: "In spite of the optimism of official statements, the situation is not improving. Unable to distinguish between rebels and peaceful citizens [we] are forced to engage in blind repression. Each false fellagha killed is replaced by ten real ones-to the point where our forces, faced with the enmity of the entire population, will either have to practice a policy of extermination ... or give up." Adds Marcus: "Here, lying has become second nature. The government lies to the country, the generals and prefects...
...French troops are committed, and the hostilities have claimed some 50,000 deaths on both sides, France does not recognize the conflict as a war. Result: a legalistic no man's land in which reporters trying conscientiously to get the Algerian side of the story by meeting with fellagha leaders either in Paris or Algiers put themselves at the mercy of French security and treason laws...
...Minutes later, French planes strafed the target area. Marines swarmed ashore from the cruiser, trucks carrying Senegalese troops roared up the road from Philippeville and swung up into the hills. It was the first combined air-sea-ground operation of the French in Algeria, aimed at the concentration of fellagha bands behind Collo. At operation's end, French troops found caches of food, abandoned hideouts, and the bodies of 14 rebels...
...Cairo headed by one Mohammed ben Bella. Soustelle flourished a copy of orders drawn up in Cairo by Ben Bella directing the assassination of any Algerian who tried to negotiate with the French. The document was headed: "Done with the Approval of Big Brother." Who was Big Brother? "All fellagha to whom we have put this question have answered with the name of Nasser...