Word: soummam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guerrillas in the hills, Abbane brought all the local bands under a unified command, created a system of taxing inhabitants on the French model, set up recruitment and training centers. Practically under the guns of the French army, he called an all-Algeria conference of F.L.N. leaders in the Soummam valley, rammed through his entire program of no compromise, no quarter, no mercy...
Solitary Meal. From Soummam, Abbane moved on to his toughest job: Algiers itself. By December 1956 eleven bombs a day were exploding in the streets, and the city was on the verge of collapse. The French replied with General Jacques Massu and his paratroop division, who fought the F.L.N. terror with equally brutal terror. In two months Abbane's underground was smashed, and he escaped to Tunis minutes before he was to be arrested...
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