Word: fellagha
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...Corporal Abd el Krim disappeared. Before dawn one morning last week, he reappeared, creeping up to the fortress' outer wall with 150 fellagha guerrillas leading mules...
...Here I stay," reads the inscription on a war memorial in Philippeville, but few of the 35,000 Europeans living on their raw nerves in or near the embattled Algerian seaport now feel like making it their own motto. In the days before the restless, roving bands of fellagha began pillaging, burning, looting, killing, and destroying all that the French had brought to their country, busy, picturesque Philippeville had hoped to become "the Nice of Algeria...
...fellagha operate at night in bands of 12 to 15, hiding in the caves or the deep cork forests by day. "They are naturally beautiful fighters," says Pierre Galuzot, a lieutenant in the Foreign Legion. "They are tougher than the Viet Minh Communists; they are the best marksmen I have ever fought against...
Hate in the Heart. The fellagha rely heavily on the passive support and protection of Algeria's 8,000,000 Moslems. France has done great things for the Algerian people in public health and economic development; yet nearly 1,000,000 are unemployed, and only one in five of their children can go to school. The Algerians suffer from bitter poverty (which is not necessarily France's fault) and bitter discrimination (which they do blame on the French...
...works and public-health programs, recruit a local militia. "Eighty percent of the natives just want to be protected from trouble," said one young district officer in the Aures Mountains. "So long as they believe that we're here to stay in strength, they will not support the fellagha...